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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 1864
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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Table No. 1.
BIRTHS and DEATHS, &c., for the last Nine Years.
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
Births
629
646
601
630
602
647
588
614
551
Deaths
598
658
593
603
565
572
568
593
624
Number of Deaths under
5 years
• •
235
191
213
198
232
.199
192
221
Number of Deaths over
60 years
• •
165
130
118
114
131
123
114
116
Number of Deaths from
5 to 60
• •
258
272
272
253
209
246
299
287
Deaths from Smallpox
1
• •
..
1
3
• •
1
12
3
„ Measles
10
27
14
9
13
15
6
12
8
,, Scarlatina
13
20
10
14
19
10
37
34
18
,, Whooping
Cough
20
32
14
26
12
29
12
12
28
,, Diarrhœa
13
34
15
47
12
17
15
18
23
,, Fever
14
14
19
20
11
7
11
53
17
„ Consumption
..
76
60
87
67
67
56
65
85
,, Diseases of
Lungs
• •
88
102
95
129
122
104
106
110
Deaths in the Workhouse
105
106
60
51
81
82
67
81
87
,, in Charing Cross
Hospital
77
88
82
71
81
64
77
79
85
Annual Death-Rate in 1000
24.5
25.8
24.3
25.4
23.1
24.2
24.6
27.5