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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

St Martin-in-the-Fields 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]

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Table: The following Table gives the number of Deaths registered in each month of the year:—

The following Table gives the number of Deaths registered in each month of the year:—

Males.Females.Total.
January22426
February111122
March171229
April17825
May151126
June141125
July111627
August151025
September15722
October111021
November17825
December141024
179118297

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These 297 Deaths include those non-parishioners who died in
the Charing Cross Hospital, and must therefore be omitted in
estimating the death-rate, but, on the other hand, the deaths
occurring in Public Institutions outside the Parish among persons
belonging thereto must be added. On referring to Table 8, it will
at. once make clear what I have just stated.
The Death-rate of the Parish for the year 1897 is 15.2 per 1,000.
In London, the Death-rate for the year 1897 is 17.7 per 1,000.
With the exception of the rate in the year 1894, the rate in 1897
was the lowest hitherto recorded in London.
Infantile Mortality.
Of the 199 deaths of parishioners occurring within and outside of
the Parish, 44 were under 5 years of age, equal to 221 per cent. of
the total deaths.
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