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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

Woolwich 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: TABLE I.Deaths Registered from all causes in the Year1898,in the Sanitary Area of Woolwich, including Deaths of Non-Parishioners, also Deaths of Parishioners occurring in various Public Lnstitutions outside the District.

TABLE I.

Deaths Registered from all causes in the Year1898,in the Sanitary Area of Woolwich, including Deaths of Non-Parishioners, also Deaths of Parishioners occurring in various Public Lnstitutions outside the District.

Cause of Death.Ages.Total under 5 years.Total 5 years and upwards.Grand Total at all ages.registration sub-district
Under 1 Year.1 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 & upwards.Dockyard .Arsenal.
( Classes.)
I. Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases5275223541421127471748292
II. Parasitic Diseases...............1..................111...
III. Dietetic Diseases1...1......1...2.........14514
IV. Constitutional Diseases1410io202424182295124133i577681
V. Developmental Diseases38..................11528113855933657
VI. Local Diseases8550712233231563923235225360148212
VII. Deaths from Violence6486882441...1041512130
VIII. Deaths from Ill-defined and Non-specified Causes243............1...1......272291712
Total220142484660705385725915362508870382488