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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 1888
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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TABLE I.
BIRTHS, DEATHS, and INQUESTS for the last Ten Years.
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
Births
481
445
418
412
403
401
350
356
302
276
Deaths, total
557
491
451
474
408
469
426
425
415
399
„ under 5 years
184
171
138
164
146
142
113
119
115
100
„ from 5 to 60
282
249
225
248
210
252
233
215
218
225
„ over 60 years
91
71
88
62
52
75
80
91
82
74
„ from Small-pox
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
,, ,, Measles
5
5
7
7
27
8
9
5
5
9
„ „ Scarlet Fever
14
12
12
3
5
1
1
0
2
1
„ „ Whooping-Cough..
12
20
7
13
2
13
7
11
5
4
„ „ Diarrhœa
7
17
10
7
11
14
6
15
11
5
„ „ Fever
7
5
16
5
6
7
4
4
3
1
,, „ Consumption
74
55
51
43
43
46
51
47
29
31
„ ,, in Charing Cross Hospital
198
160
148
188
118
178
177
160
175
195
Inquests
60
49
74
69
54
73
63
60
67
62