[Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1899
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Credit: [Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    s Shewing the number of deaths from certain specific causes and groups of causes in the 52 weeks of 1899 in the Sub-Registration Districts in the City of Leeds. Ail deaths in public institutions within the City of persons I belonging to the City have been referred to the Sub-District to which they belonged. Small-pox. 1 Measles. Scarlatina Diphtheria. Whooping-cough Fever. Diarrhoea. All seven. Croup. Phthisis. Influenza and diseases . of the air-passages other than consumption. All other causes. All causes. Leeds, North 47 2 29 12 14 75 179 l6 123 257 685 1260 I ,, West ... 28 11 31 20 11 61 162 8 I40 301 937 1548 ,, South-E. 44 5 5 17 11 3i 113 1 70 172 467 823 Hunslet. 7 l6 49 45 11 98 226 1 68 22 7 743 1265 Ilolbeck ... 6 7 52 17 6 30 118 7 42 127 380 674 Wort ley. 6 12 73 30 6 58 185 9 57 207 650 1108 Kirkstall 8 10 20 9 6 26 79 2 46 114 361 602 Bramley. 4 1 29 5 2 16 57 5 27 63 16^ 315 Chapeltown. . 6 10 4 'j 0 12 35 1 14 68 204 322 1 Osmondthorpe ... 1 1 1 0 0 2 7 City of Leeds 156 64 298 159 71 N I O U55 50 588 1539 4592 7924 ilOne death from diphtheria, 2 from ‘‘fever, 8 from phthisis, 9 from influenza and diseases of the air- passages other than consumption, and 161 deaths from other causes, occurred in the City of persons not belonging to Leeds ; on the other hand 90 deaths occurred during the year of Leeds persons in West Riding Asylums, outside the borough. Of these 17 were from phthisis, 11 from the lung groups, and 62 from other causes.