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. Saviour's]
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The excess of births over deaths is 164, comparing with
159, 212, and 162, during the last three years.
The following is a general classification of the causes of
death in the district in the form of a percentage of deaths from
various classes of disease to the total number of deaths:—
Zymotic diseases 14.43
Dietetic .69
Constitutional diseases 22.60
Developmental „ 10.78
Local—
Nervous system 6.09
Circulatory „ 7.14
Respiratory „ 21.04
Digestive „ . 6.61
Urinary „ 3.30
Integumentary „ 1.05
Bones and joints 1.05
Violence 4.87
Ill-defined .35
It may be of interest to note the various institutions and
hospitals in which the outlying deaths took place.
St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Guy's „
St. Thomas's
Evelina
Seamen's „
King's „
Fulham Cancer „
Charing Cross ,,
Royal „
Belgrave „
West London „
Great Orinond Street „
St. Mary's „
W estminster „
S. W. Fever „
S. E. Fever ,,
HoRtel of God.
St. Luke's Home, Osnaburgh Street.
Park Fever Hospital.
Newington Workhouse.
St. Saviour's Informaly.
Caterham Asylum.
Lambeth Workhouse.