Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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TABLE II.
Showing the Annual Birth-rate, Death-rate, Death-rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions in a Thousand Deaths for the Year 1891, and Ten Years Preceding.
In Year. | Birth-rate per 1,000 of the Population. | Death-rate per 1,000 of the Population. | Deaths of Children under 1 year per 1,000 of Registered Births. | Deaths of Children under 1 year per 1,000 of total Deaths. | Deaths of Children under 5 years per 1,000 of total Deaths. | Deaths in Public Institutions inside the District per 1,000 of total Deaths. |
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1891 | 28.8 | 27.4 | 185 | 195 | 322 | 225 |
1890 | 26.0 | 22.8 | 160 | 183 | 288 | 190 |
1889 | 26.3 | 19.9 | 147 | 194 | 327 | 120 |
1888 | 26.6 | 18.7 | 155 | 220 | 324 | 174 |
1887 | 26.7 | 23.0 | 178 | 207 | 345 | 154 |
1886 | 28.4 | 22.9 | 164 | 204 | 359 | 160 |
1885 | 29.1 | 23.6 | 163 | 193 | 325 | 208 |
1884 | 32.6 | 26.1 | 182 | 227 | 411 | 180 |
1883 | 30.7 | 24.1 | 181 | 230 | 395 | 184 |
1882 | 29.7 | 24.0 | 150 | 205 | 372 | 174 |
1881 | 29.4 | 24.6 | 158 | 210 | 340 | 208 |
Average of 10 years—1881 to 1890. | 28.5 | 22.9 | 163 | 207 | 348 | 175 |