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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
Heston and Isleworth 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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(A) TABLE of DEATHS during the Year 1898, in the Heston and Isleworth Urban
Sanitary District, classified according to DISEASES, AGES and LOCALITIES.
| Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. | At all Ages | Under 1 Year | 1 & under 5 | 5 & under 15 | 15 & under 25 | 25 & under 65 | 65 & upwards | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | Scarlatina | Diphtheria | Membraneous Croup | Fevers. | Cholera | Erysipelas | Measles | Whooping Cough | Diarrhoea and Dysentery | Rheumatic Fever | Phthisis | Bronchitis Pneumonia and Pleurisy | Heart Disease | Tubercular Diseases other than Phthisis Pulmonalis | Injuries | All Other Diseases | TOTAL | |||||||||||||
| Typhus | Enteric or Typhoid | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | (i) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Heston and Isleworth Urban District. | 468 | 141 | 74 | 19 | 13 | 113 | 108 | Under 5 | 4 | 20 | 11 | 58 | 1 | 35 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 66 | 216 | |||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 4 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 19 | 46 | 34 | 4 | 7 | 126 | 252 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Union Workhouse (Non residents.) | 127 | 5 | 6 | 59 | 57 | Under 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 21 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 65 | 122 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mogden Isolation Hospital (Non residents.) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Under 5 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Totals. | 598 | 146 | 75 | 20 | 20 | 172 | 165 | Under 5 | 5 | 21 | 11 | 59 | 1 | 35 | 1 | 17 | 4 | 68 | 222 | |||||||||||
| s upwdsj | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 40 | 65 | 45 | 9 | 8 | 191 | 376 | ||||||||||||||||||
Area of District:- 6893 acres. Population:- (1891) 26,271. POPULATION (Estimated to middle of 1898), 29,185.
DEATH RATES:— General 16.03 (per 1000 population, estimated to middle of 1898).
Infant 174.72 per 1000 births registered.