London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
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 1880
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
This page requires JavaScript
30
TABLE
Showing the Mortality from certain classes of Diseases, and
proportions to Population, and 1,000 Deaths, 1880.
Total
Deaths.
Deaths per
1,000 of
Population.
Proportion of
Deaths to
1,000 Deaths.
1. Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases
63
2.9
28.3
2. Pulmonary Diseases (other than
Phthisis
95
4.4
193.4
3. Tubercular Diseases
65
3.06
132.3
4. Wasting Diseases of Infants
21
0.98
42.7
5. Convulsive Diseases of Infanta
22
1.03
44.8
NOTES.
1. Includes Smallpox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Fever,
and Diarrhoea.
3. Includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Rickets, and Tabes.
4. Includes Marasmus, Atrophy, Debility, want of Breast Milk, and Prematare
Birth.
5. Includes Hydrocephalus, Infantile Meningitis, Convulsions, and Teeming