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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 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 1883-84-85-86-87-88.
disease.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886-
1887.
1888.
Small-Pox
1
2
4
-
-
-
Measles
29
10
10
6
5
10
Scarlet Fever
6
3
1
—
3
9
Diphtheria
6
1
4
1
3
3
Whooping Cough
2
13
7
13
4
4
Fever
5
1
1
3
1
3
Diarrhœa
9
14
6
14
8
4
Total
58
44
33
37
24
33