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. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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TABLE I.
BIRTHS) DEATHS, and INQUESTS for the last Ten Years,
1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Births | 356 | 302 | 276 | 283 | 267 | 252 | 246 | 223 | 233 | 189 |
Deaths, total | 425 | 415 | 399 | 380 | 382 | 420 | 331 | 367 | 341 | 367 |
,, under 5 years | 119 | 115 | 100 | 127 | 96 | 121 | 89 | 84 | 87 | 99 |
„ from 5 to 60 | 215 | 218 | 225 | 200 | 214 | 222 | 179 | 223 | 202 | 209 |
„ over 60 years | 91 | 82 | 74 | 53 | 72 | 77 | 63 | 60 | 52 | 59 |
„ from Small-pox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
,, „ Measles | 5 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 4 |
,, „ Scarlet Fever | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
„ „ Whooping-Cough | 11 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
,, „ Diarrhoea | 15 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
„ „ Fever | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
,, „ Consumption | 47 | 29 | 31 | 26 | 29 | 41 | 29 | 24 | 33 | 31 |
„ in Charing Cross Hospital | 160 | 175 | 195 | 174 | 173 | 204 | 141 | 184 | 168 | 201 |
Inquests | 60 | 67 | 62 | 57 | 54 | 58 | 60 | 56 | 58 | 54 |