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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 1857

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]

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37
BIRTHS AND DEATHS
IN THE

Table: charing cross and long acre districts In the Year 1858.

charing cross and long acre districts In the Year 1858.

DistrictsPopulationBirthsRate per 1000DeathsKate per 1000
Charing Cross.12,58724519,4725119.94
Long Acre12,05336430.2430024.98

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Deducting half the Deaths, occurring in Charing Cross
Hospital as the average number of parishioners dying in
this and other Hospitals, and distributing those deaths
equally into the two districts, by giving half the deaths
on the workhouse to the Long Acre District, although
the probability is that much more than halt the inmates
of the workhouse come from that district.