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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

Westminster 1857

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster]

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Table: AGES AND CAUSES OF DEATH DURING APRIL, MAY & JUNE. ST. JOHN'S.

AGES AND CAUSES OF DEATH DURING APRIL, MAY & JUNE. ST. JOHN'S.

Diseases.Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 10.10 to 20.20 to 30.30 to 40.40 to 50.50 to 60.60 to 70.70 & upwards.Total.Total of both
small Pox......................,...... •,...,
Chicken Pox..........................• •...
measlesi1
Scarlet Fever ................44
Hooping Cough ..............54132
Diarrhoea....................21• •1..15
Dysentery....................• •....• •..• •• •• •
Cholera......................• •..• •• •• •.....
Fever1..114i
Bronchitis and Pneumonia......88• •212212275,
Pleurisy......................• •• •• •• •• •• •••11
Group ......................11
Phthisis......................1791045... •366'
Hydrocephalus and Convulsions..8311132
Apoplexy and Epilepsy ........112411
Marasmus and Atrophy........8191!
Violence, Privation & Preme-Birth51613
Rheumatic Fever...............
Pyoemia..........................• •111
Other Diseases—chiefly Chronic731••4344123897
Total............43265101416912919163337