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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 1866

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

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20
Table No. 1.
BIRTHS and DEATHS, &c., for the last Ten Years.
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
Births
646
601
630
602
647
588
614
551
579
571
Deaths
658
593
603
565
572
568
593
624
597
566
Number of Deaths under
5 years
235
191
213
198
232
199
192
221
227
203
Number of Deaths over
60 years
165
130
118
114
131
123
114
116
106
119
Number of Deaths from
5 to 60
258
272
272
253
209
246
299
287
264
24G
Deaths from Smallpox
..
..
1
3
..
1
12
3
5
2
„ Measles
27
14
9
13
15
6
12
8
17
12
,, Scarlatina
20
10
14
19
10
37
34
18
13
8
,, Whooping
Cough
32
14
26
12
29
12
12
28
25
6
,, Cholera
..
..
..
.
..
..
..
..
.
9
,, Diarrhoea
34
15
47
12
17
15
18
23
20
24
,, Fever
14
19
20
11
7
11
53
17
19
16
„ Consumption
76
60
87
67
67
56
65
85
87
85
81
,, Diseases of
Lungs
88
102
95
129
122
101
106
110
102
Deaths in the Workhouse
106
60
51
81
82
67
81
87
91
115
,, in Charing Cross
Hospital
88
82
71
81
64
77
79
85
92
61
Annual Death-Rate in 1000
25.8
28.8
24.3
25.4
23.1
24.2
24.6
27.5
26.2
24.6