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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 1886
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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TABLE I.
BIRTHS and DEATHS, &c., for the last Ten Years.
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
Births
491
467
481
445
418
412
403
401
350
356
Deaths
466
519
557
491
451
474
408
469
426
425
„ under 5 years
133
177
184
171
138
164
146
142
113
119
„ from 5 to 60
247
256
282
249
225
248
210
252
233
215
„ over 60 years
86
86
91
71
88
62
52
75
80
91
„ from Small-pox
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
,, „ Measles
5
3
5
5
7
7
27
8
9
5
„ „ Scarlet Fever
0
5
14
12
12
3
5
1
1
0
„ „ Whooping-Cough
5
12
12
20
7
13
2
13
7
11
„ „ Diarrhæa
8
12
7
17
10
7
11
14
6
15
„ „ Fever
8
7
7
5
16
5
6
7
4
4
„ „ Consumption
76
70
74
55
51
43
43
46
51
47
„ „ in Charing Cross Hospital
153
186
198
160
148
188
118
178
177
160
Inquests
63
65
60
49
74
69
14
73
63
60