Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 | |
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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 |