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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 Y.Showing the number of deaths occurring in the Parish from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, excluding those non-residents who diedinthe Charing Cross Hospital, and including those parishioners who died in public institutions outside the Parish durinq tht years1888-89-90-91-92-93-94-95-96-97,also the number in1898.

TABLE Y.

Showing the number of deaths occurring in the Parish from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, excluding those non-residents who diedinthe Charing Cross Hospital, and including those parishioners who died in public institutions outside the Parish durinq tht years1888-89-90-91-92-93-94-95-96-97,also the number in1898.

disease.1888.1889,1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.1896.1897-Annual Average of 10 Years. 1888 to 1897.1898.
Small-Poi—————1—1——0.2-
Measles1068691921116.31
Scarlet Fever93116112423.01
Diphtheria321511657234.53
Whooping Cough46681256555.01
*Fever3142—131522.21
Diarrhœa44322233422.94
Totals3324232429142622311524.111
* Under the head Ferer is included Typhus, Typhoid, Continued, Relapsing and Puerperal.