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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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Table: AT VARIOUS AGES,In the Parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, for the Year1870.

AT VARIOUS AGES,

In the Parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, for the Year1870.

Diseases.Under 5 Tears.From 5 to 20.From 20 to 40.From 40 to 60.From 60 to 80.80 and up-wards.Total Deaths at all ages.
Smallpox31............3
Measles9...............9
Scarlet Fever137......1...21
Whooping Cough5...............5
Diarrhœa19.........1...20
Typhus Fever21111...6
Croup5...............5
Rheumatic Fever.........1......1
Enrsipelas9......32...7
Delirium Tremens.........31...4
Cancer......155213
Mortification......1...1...2
Dropsy...11...2...4
Measenteric Disease33............6
Consumption4527404...80
Water on the Brain6...............6
Apoplexy......26817
convulsions301............31
Disease of Brain62584...25
......248...14
Paralysis111.........3
Epilepsy1 12121311...39
Disease of Heart23232716172
Bronchitis1446115...40
Pneumonia4241......11
Disease of Lungs1......22...5
Asthma1...111...4
Disease of Stomach1...642...13
„ Liver1...8101...22
„ Intestines3...272114
„ Kidney...2...23...5
„ Bladder..................5
Bones and Joints1121......2
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Childbirth8...............22
Teething22...............17
Debility from Birth......773...25
Fracture of Bones.........13125
Old Age221.........3
Rupture of Blood-vessels1...2.........2
Privation1.........1...1
Chloroform.........1......28
Inquests.....................