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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 1870
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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BIRTHS and DEATHS, &c., for the last Ten Years.
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
Births
647
588
614
551
579
571
595
670
576
592
Deaths
572
568
593
624
597
566
561
631
594
620
Number of Deaths under
5 years
232
199
192
221
227
203
207
229
185
205
Number of Deaths over
60 years
131
123
114
116
106
119
117
135
139
274
Number of Deaths from
5 to 60
209
246
299
287
264
246
237
279
270
141
Deaths from Smallpox
• •
1
12
3
5
2
8
4
0
3
„ Measles
15
6
12
8
17
12
6
13
14
9
,, Scarlatina
10
37
34
18
13
8
6
22
16
21
„ Whooping
Cough
29
12
12
28
25
6
36
10
16
5
,, Diarrhœa
17
15
18
23
20
24
11
28
17
20
,, Fever
7
11
53
17
19
16
9
18
10
6
„ Consumption
67
56
65
85
87
81
64
78
67
80
Deaths in the Workhouse
82
67
81
87
91
115
68
82
96
78
,, in Charing Cross
Hospital
64
77
79
85
92
61
61
131
123
122