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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 1882
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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Deaths, 1882 474
Deduct non-residents who died in the
Charing Cross Hospital 154
320
Death.rate per 1,000 for the year 1882, 17.0
Ratio of Deaths to population 1 in 56.7
In estimating the population I have added the
inhabitants of the Peabody Buildings, which establishment
was not completed when the Census of
April 1st, 1881, was taken.
In London the Deaths numbered 82,905 and were
in the proportion of 21.4 per 1,000
Appended is the annual death.rate per 1,000 in
the parish of St. Martin.in.the.Fields during the last
ten years:—
1873 20.2
1874 18.6
1875 18.3
1876 17.2
1877 16 9
1878 17.5
1879 18.6
1880 16.8
1881 18.5
1882 17.6