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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 1867
[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.
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
Births
601
630
602
647
588
611
551
579
571
595
Deaths
593
603
565
572
568
593
624
597
566
561
Number of Deaths under
5 years
191
213
198
232
199
192
221
227
203
207
Number of Deaths over
60 years
130
118
114
131
123
114
116
106
119
117
Number of Deaths from
5 to 60
272
272
253
209
246
299
287
264
246
237
Deaths from Smallpox
..
1
3
..
1
12
3
5
2
8
,, Measles
14
9
13
15
6
12
8
17
12
6
,, Scarlatina
10
14
19
10
37
34
18
13
8
6
„ Whooping
Cough
14
26
12
29
12
12
28
25
6
36
,, Diarrhoea
15
47
12
17
15
18
23
20
24
11
,, Fever
19
20
11
7
11
53
17
19
16
9
,, Consumption
60
87
67
67
56
65
85
87
81
64
Other Diseases of
Lungs
102
95
129
122
104
106
110
85
102
92
Deaths in the Workhouse
60
51
81
82
67
81
87
91
115
68
„ in Charing Cross
Hospital
82
71
81
64
77
79
85
92
61
61
Annual Death-Rate in 1000
28.8
24.3
25.4
23.1
24.2
24.6
27.5
26.2
24.6