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Strand (Westminster) 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Strand]
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9
THE STRAND DISTRICT, LONDON.
Influenza.—For the fifth year in succession London
has been visited by this disease, and as in previous
years, it was accompanied by a great increase in the
number of deaths from respiratory diseases It first
began to make an impression upon the death rate about
the middle of February, rapidly rising to a maximum
in the week ending the 9th of March, when 473 deaths
were recorded, thereafter it more slowly declined to
the end of April.
Weekly Number of Deaths from Influenza and from RespiratoryDiseases
(excluding Phthisis) in London in 1895.