Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 Ten Years.
1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | |
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Births | 629 | 646 | 601 | 630 | 602 | 64 7 | 588 | 614 | 551 | 579 |
Deaths | 598 | 658 | 593 | 603 | 565 | 572 | 568 | 593 | 624 | 597 |
Number of Deaths under 5 years | .. | 235 | 191 | 213 | 198 | 232 | 199 | 192 | 221 | 227 |
Number of Deaths over 60 years | .. | 165 | 130 | 118 | 114 | 131 | 123 | 114 | 116 | 106 |
Number of Deaths from 5 to 60 | .. | 258 | 272 | 272 | 253 | 209 | 246 | 299 | 287 | 264 |
Deaths from Smallpox | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | 1 | 12 | 3 | 5 |
„ Measles | 10 | 27 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 17 |
„ Scarlatina | 13 | 20 | 10 | 14 | 19 | 10 | 37 | 34 | 18 | 13 |
„ Whooping Cough | 20 | 32 | 14 | 26 | 12 | 29 | 12 | 12 | 28 | 25 |
„ Diarrhœa | 13 | 34 | 15 | 47 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 23 | 20 |
„ Fever | 14 | 14 | 19 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 53 | 17 | 19 |
„ Consumption | .. | 76 | 60 | 87 | 67 | 67 | 56 | 65 | 85 | 87 |
„ Diseases of Lungs | .. | 88 | 102 | 95 | 129 | 122 | 104 | 106 | 110 | 85 |
Deaths in the Workhouse | 105 | 106 | 60 | 51 | 81 | 82 | 67 | 81 | 87 | 91 |
„ in Charing Cross Hospital | 77 | 88 | 82 | 71 | 81 | 64 | 77 | 79 | 85 | 92 |
Annual Death-Rate in 1000 | 24.5 | 25.8 | 24.3 | 25.4 | 23.1 | 24.2 | 24.6 | 27.5 | 24.0 |