Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Forty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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[1900
Table XXIII. Showing the Deaths (arranged in Classes) from All Causes, in the Four Quarters.
Classified Causes of Death. | Quarters. | Year. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st. | 2nd. | 3rd. | 4th. | ||
I. Specific or Febrile Causes | 270 | 204 | 241 | 145 | 860 |
1. Miasmatic Diseases | 250 | 186 | 96 | 98 | 630 |
2. Diarrhæal | 4 | 8 | 139 | 29 | 180 |
3. Malarial „ | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
4. Zoogenous „ | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
5. Venereal | 9 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 22 |
6. Septic „ | 7 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 28 |
II. Parasitic Diseases | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
III. Dietic „ | 8 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 25 |
IV. Constitutional Diseases | 299 | 271 | 256 | 293 | 1,119 |
V. Developmental „ | 162 | 145 | 106 | 127 | 540 |
VI. Local „ | 948 | 658 | 504 | 635 | 2,745 |
1. Diseases of Nervous System | 156 | 122 | 107 | 130 | 515 |
2. „ Organs of Special Sense | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 15 |
3. „ Circulatory System | 151 | 113 | 104 | 114 | 482 |
4. „ Respiratory „ | 491 | 277 | 122 | 242 | 1,132 |
5. „ Digestive „ | 81 | 90 | 125 | 91 | 387 |
6. „ Lymphatic „ | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
7. ,, Glandlike Organs of uncertain use | 3 | 2 | .. | .. | 5 |
8. „ Urinary System | 45 | 36 | 30 | 33 | 144 |
9. ,, Reproductive System | 9 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 62 |
10. „ Bones and Joints | .. | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
11. ,, Integumentary | 6 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 24 |
VII. Violence | 66 | 59 | 43 | 27 | 195 |
1. Accident or Negligence | 59 | 45 | 39 | 24 | 167 |
2. Homicide | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 2 |
3. Suicide | 7 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 26 |
VIII. Ill-defined Causes | 65 | 49 | 66 | 56 | 236 |
All Causes | 1,819 | 1,390 | 1,221 | 1,291 | 5,721 |
Note.—The heavy figure denote that the diseases to which they are applied were most fatal
in the Quarter to which they refer.