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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 V
Showing the number of deaths occurring in the Parish from the seven principal
Zymotic Diseases, excluding those non-residents who died in the Charing
Cross Hospital, and including those parishioners who died in public institutions
outside the Parish during the years 1883-84-85-86.
Disease.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
Small-Pox
1
2
4
—
Measles
29
10
10
6
Scarlet Fever
6
3
1
—
Diphteria
6
1
4
1
Whooping Cough
2
13
7
13
Fever
5
1
1
3
Diarrhæa
9
14
6
14
Total
58
44
33
37