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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 1879

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]

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Table: The following number of Deaths were registered as having occurred in St. James's during the year 1879:—

The following number of Deaths were registered as having occurred in St. James's during the year 1879:—

First Quarter173
Second Quarter172
Third Quarter81
Fourth Quarter182
Gross mortality for year 1879608
Deduct Deaths of Non-Parishioners
Dying in the Workhouse38
Dying in the Throat Hospital7
45
563
Add Deaths among Zymotic cases removed to extra-Parochial Hospitals5
Net mortality for the year 1879568