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 OF THE CAUSES OF DEATH,
1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | |
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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 | 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 |