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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 1860
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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of deaths at the active periods of life, and form?
perhaps, the best criterion of the unhealthiness of the
season.
Mortality in the Parish of St. Martih-in-the-Fields for the
Quarter ending March 31, 1860.
0-5
years.
5 to
20.
20 to
40.
40 to
60.
60 to
80.
80
Upwards
Total.
Smallpox
3
..
..
..
..
..
3
Measles
1
..
..
..
..
..
1
Scarlatina
3
3
..
..
..
..
6
Whooping Cough
2
1
..
..
..
..
3
Diarrhœa
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
Typhus Fever
2
1
..
1
..
..
4
Croup
4
..
..
..
..
..
4
Mesenteric Disease
4
..
..
..
..
..
4
Cancer
..
..
..
1
..
..
3
Dropsy
..
..
..
2
..
..
2
Consumption
..
2
10
8
..
..
20
Water on the Brain
6
..
..
..
..
..
6
Apoplexy
..
..
..
3
2
..
5
Paralysis
..
..
..
1
2
1
4
Convulsions
6
..
..
..
..
..
6
Disease of Brain
1
2
..
3
..
..
6
Disease of Heart
..
..
..
3
..
..
3
Bronchitis
9
1
3
8
6
4
31
Pneumonia
8
..
..
1
..
..
9
Asthma
..
..
..
3
..
..
3
Disease of Lungs
..
..
2
2
..
..
4
„ Stomach
..
1
..
..
..
..
1
„ Intestines
1
1
2
1
..
..
5
„ Kidney
..
..
2
1
..
..
3
„ Uterus
..
..
1
..
..
..
1
„ Bones, &c
1
..
1
1
..
..
3
Debility from birth
4
..
..
..
..
..
4
Teething
3
..
..
..
..
..
3
Old age
..
..
..
1
13
6
20
Fractures
..
..
..
1
..
..
1
Burns
2
..
..
2
..
..
5
Suffocated in bed
2
..
..
..
..
..
2
Suicides
..
..
2
..
..
..
2
61
13
23
43
26
11
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