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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 James's 1878
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
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The following number of Deaths were registered as
having occurred in St. James's during the year 1878:—
First Quarter 187
Second Quarter 143
Third Quarter 171
Fourth Quarter 192
Gross mortality for year 1878 693
Deduct Deaths of Non-Parishoners
Dying in the Workhouse 43
Dying in the Throat Hospital 7
50
643
Add Deaths among Zymotic cases removed
to extra-Parochial Hospitals 4
Net mortality for the year 1878 647
647 deaths in a population of 33,500 is a death rate of
19 per 1000.
The deaths occurring in St. James's during the last
eight years have been as follows:—
Year 1871 Deaths 680
„ 1872 „ 620
„ 1873 „ 629
„ 1874 „ 592
„ 1875 „ 621
„ 1876 „ 573
„ 1877 „ 554
„ 1878 „ 693