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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 III.—Giving the Causes of Deaths during the 5 Weeks ending January 29th, 1898, at the Middlesex Hospital, Queen Charlotte's Lying-in-Hospital, Samaritan Hospital, the Workhouse, and the Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill, W.

TABLE III.—Giving the Causes of Deaths during the 5 Weeks ending January 29th, 1898, at the Middlesex Hospital, Queen Charlotte's Lying-in-Hospital, Samaritan Hospital, the Workhouse, and the Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill, W.

Middlesex Hospital.Queen Charlotte's Hospital.Samaritan Hospital.WorkhouseNotting Hill. Infirmary.
Influenza...............
Scarlet Fever...............
Diphtheria...............
Typhoid Fever2............
Diarrhœa...............
Erysipelas...............
Pneumonia and Pleurisy6.........1
Pyaemia...............
Syphilis...............
Cancer8.........6
Phthisis and Tuberculosis "Rheumatism4.........7
Arwmlftxy1............
Paralysis............1
Bronchitis5......312
Asthma.........1...
Peritonitis2............
Disease of Brain............1
,, Heart2.........2
,, Kidney1............
Liver............1
,, Uterus...............
„ Ovary...............
Parturition...............
Diabetes...............
Fractures and Injuries4.........1
Old Age............1
Low Vitality, Infants...............
Premature Birth...2.........
Other causes611...8
Total*41†3‡1540

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* Of the 41 deaths in the Middlesex Hospital, 25 were those of non-parishioners.
† The 3 deaths in Queen Charlotte's Hospital were infants of non-parishioners.
‡ The death in the Samaritan Hospital was that of a non-parishioner.