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.
BIRTHS and DEATHS, &c., for the last Ten Years.
1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Births | 592 | 559 | 496 | 532 | 480 | 476 | 494 | 491 | 467 | 481 |
Deaths | 620 | 526 | 504 | 545 | 511 | 503 | 418 | 466 | 519 | 557 |
„ under 5 years | 205 | 184 | 158 | 160 | 160 | 152 | 152 | 133 | 177 | 184 |
„ from 5 to 60 | 141 | 260 | 273 | 297 | 258 | 260 | 191 | 247 | 256 | 282 |
„ over 60 years | 274 | 82 | 73 | 88 | 93 | 91 | 75 | 86 | 86 | 91 |
,, from Smallpox | 3 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
,, „ Measles | 9 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
,, ,, Scarlet Fever | 21 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 14 |
„ ,, Whooping Cough | 5 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 12 |
„ ,, Diarrhœa | 20 | 19 | 23 | 12 | 11 | 19 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 7 |
„ ,, Fever | 6 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 7 |
,, „ Consumption | 80 | 69 | 75 | 77 | 64 | 73 | 51 | 76 | 70 | 74 |
,, in Charing Cross Hospital | 122 | 150 | 139 | 150 | 157 | 150 | 78 | 153 | 186 | 198 |
???quests | •• | 45 | 65 | 73 | 60 | 57 | 54 | 63 | 65 | 60 |