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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 1898

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

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Table: TABLE IV.Showing the localities wherein the 22 deaths occurred from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases during the year1898in St. Martin-in-the-Fields.

TABLE IV.

Showing the localities wherein the 22 deaths occurred from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases during the year1898in St. Martin-in-the-Fields.

Small-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.DiphtheriaWhooping Cough.Fever.Diarrhoea.Total.
Charing Cross Hospital..*1..†2‡1§9¶417
Cross Court, Broad Court........l....1
Great Newport Street............11
Hotel cecil..........1..1
New street............11
Strand Buildings..l..........1
..2..2210622

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* This death from Measles, occurring in the Charing Cross Hospital, was that of a nonparishioner.
† One of these deaths from Diphtheria, occurring in the Charing Cross Hospital, was that
of a non-parishioner.
‡ This death from Whooping Cough, occurring in the Charing Cross Hospital, was that of a
non-parishioner.
§ All these nine deaths from Typhoid Fever, occurring in the Charing Cross Hospital, were
those of non-parishioners.
¶ This death from Typhoid Fever, occurring at the Hotel Cecil, wa9 imported into the Parish.
The patient was ill when he arrived from Italy, and died five days afterwards.
Three of these deaths from Diarrhoea, occurring in the Charing Cross Hospital, were those
of non-parishioners.