[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Middlesex County Council.

  • Middlesex (England). County Council. n 99020326.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Middlesex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Borough of Richmond, have been omitted. Also the deaths (127) of non-residents in the Brentford Union Workhouse have been omitted, the numbers dying in that Institution having been 163, distributed as follows :— Heston and Tsleworth Brentford .. Whitton Brompton •Acton Twickenham Ealing Richmond Han well .. Not ting Hill Chiswick .. 36 36 1 1 25 20 13 2 6 1 22 [The whole population of the Union Workhouse is included in the estimated population of the District, but only a part of the deaths is included, consequently the death-rate is really somewhat higher than it appears.] The deaths from the principal zymotic diseases numbered 109, equivalent to a rate of 3*73 per 1,000 living per annum. Epidemics. — There were epidemics of measles and diarrhoea. Of the 27 deaths from measles, 26 took place in March, April, and May, when the Spring Grove School was closed for five weeks ; and of the 61 deaths from diarrhoea, 46 occurred in August and September.
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