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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 1868
[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.
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
Births
630
602
647
588
614
551
579
571
595
670
Deaths
603
565
572
568
593
624
597
566
561
631
Number of Deaths under
5 years
213
198
232
199
123
192
221
227
203
207
229
Number of Deaths over
60 years
118
114
131
114
116
106
119
117
135
Number of Deaths from
5 to 60
272
253
209
246
299
287
264
246
237
279
Deaths from Smallpox
1
3
..
1
12
3
5
2
8
4
„ Measles
9
13
15
6
12
8
17
12
6
13
,, Scarlatina
14
19
10
37
34
18
13
8
6
22
,, Whooping
Cough
26
12
29
12
12
28
25
6
36
10
,, Diarrhœa
47
12
17
15
18
23
20
24
11
28
,, Fever
20
11
7
11
53
17
19
16
9
18
„ Consumption
87
67
67
56
65
85
87
81
64
78
Other Diseases of
Lungs
95
129
122
104
106
110
85
102
92
97
Deaths in the Workhouse
51
81
82
67
81
87
91
115
68
82
,, in Charing Cross
Hospital
71
81
64
77
79
85
92
61
61
131