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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Marylebone 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone]

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Table: TABLE 1.SHOWING THE COMPARATIVE MORTALITY DURING THE 5 WEEKS ENDING JANUARY 29th, 1898, FROM CERTAIN CLASSES OF DISEASE AND PROPORTION TO 1,000 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES

TABLE 1.

SHOWING THE COMPARATIVE MORTALITY DURING THE 5 WEEKS ENDING JANUARY 29th, 1898, FROM CERTAIN CLASSES OF DISEASE AND PROPORTION TO 1,000 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES

Total Deaths. – 5 weeks ending Jan. 29th 1898.Proportion of the deaths to 1,000 deaths from ail causes. 5 weeks ending Jan. 29, 1898.Rate per 1,000 of the population.Mean rate per 1,000 population for corresponding period 1893-1898.
1. Deaths from the chief Zymotic Diseases321122.362.42
2. Pulmonary, other than Phthisis963357.076.13
3. Tubercular24841.772.67
4. Wasting Diseases of Infants17591.250.99
5. Convulsive Diseases of Infants8280.592.18

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NOTES.
1, includes Smallpox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Influenza, Whooping Cough,
Erysipelas, Croup, Fever, and Diarrhœa.
3, includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Rickets, and Tabes.
4, includes Marasmus, Atrophy, Debility, Want of Breast Milk, and Premature Birth.
5, includes Hydrocephalus, Infantile Meningitis, Convulsions, and Teething.
Influenza.
Notwithstanding the general mildness of the winter,
chest complaints generally have been unusually fatal. The
average death-rate from bronchitis, pneumonia, and
pleurisy for January is about 6 per 1,000 of the population;
but January, 1898, shows a death-rate of 7. The causes
are partly the thick foggy atmosphere, and partly the
presence of a severe type of influenza. 14 deaths are
directly ascribed to this cause. How many cases are
indicated by the 14 deaths, it is impossible to say in the
absence of notification. The influenza appears to be of a
somewhat peculiar type ; in its less severe forms it would
seem to assume the guise of the familar "cold," but a
"cold" of great severity and long persistence. In the more
malignant types it assumes much of the character of typhoid