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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
City of London 1869
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of]
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These numbers are at the following rates per 1000
of the population:—
| Table I. | Enumeration of Births, Deaths and Marriages in | |
| each District of the City for each Quarter of | ||
| the Year. | ||
| II. | Classification of Births for each District. | |
| III. | Classification of Deaths for each District | |
| 1Y. | Classification of Deaths according to Age- | |
| Classification of Deaths according to Causes of Death. | ||
| YI. | Classification of Deaths according to Causes, during | |
| the four Quarters of the Year. | ||
| VII. | Meteorology of the Year during each month of 1870. | |
| VIII. | Account of the Sanitary "Work of the Year. | |
| IX. | Account of Meat seized during the Year. | |
| X. | Account of the Fish Condemned at Billingsgate | |
| Market during the Year. | ||
| XI. | List of Slaughter Houses in the City. | |
| XII. | List of Cow Houses in the City, and number of Cows | |
As regards the marriages, these results show that
the proportion has declined from an annual average
of 13.18 per 1000 of the population to 10.92, which
is only a little above the average for London (10.12),
although it is much above the averages for the
whole of England (8.46), France (7.98), and Austria
(8.37).
The birth-rate in the City has fluctuated to a
large extent; for in the central division of the City
it was but 11.75 per 1000 of the population, whereas
in the Western division it was 18.89, and in the
Eastern 22.89—the average for the entire City being