Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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33 [1910
Table XIX.
Classified Causes of Death. | Quarters. | Year. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st. | 2nd, | 3rd. | 4th. | ||
I. Specific or Febrile Causes.. | 121 | 9G | 94 | 228 | 539 |
1. Miasmatic Diseases | 101 | 70 | 53 | 179 | 403 |
2. Diarrhoeal ,, | 9 | 7 | 28 | 32 | 76 |
3. Malarial ,, | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
4. Zoogenous ,, | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
5. Venereal „ | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 15 |
6. Septic ,, | 7 | 13 | 8 | 15 | 43 |
II. Parasitic Diseases | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
III. Dietic | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 11 |
IV. Constitutional Diseases | 243 | 263 | 218 | 265 | 989 |
V. Developmental | 112 | 80 | 65 | 125 | 382 |
VI. Local . | 672 | 473 | 430 | 728 | 2,303 |
1. Diseases of Nervous System | 84 | 64 | 62 | 72 | 282 |
2. „ Organs of Special Sense | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | |
3. „ Circulatory System | 177 | 132 | 153 | 183 | 645 |
4. ,, Respiratory „ | 282 | 169 | 92 | 327 | 870 |
5 ,, Digestive „ | 59 | 66 | 65 | 90 | 280 |
6. ,, Lymphatic „ | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
7. ,, Urinary „ | 55 | 35 | 46 | 41 | 177 |
8 „ Reproductive ,, | 8 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 17 |
9. ,, Bones and Joints.. | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
10. ,, Integumentary System | 2 | .. | 2 | 2 | 6 |
VII. Violence | 59 | 44 | 49 | 42 | 194 |
1. Accident or Negligence | 43 | 29 | 37 | 29 | 138 |
2. Homicide. | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
3 Suicide | 16 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 48 |
4. Execution | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 |
VIII. Ill-defined Causes . | 28 | 16 | 20 | 40 | 104 |
All Causes | 1,237 | 974 | 882 | 1,430 | 4,523 |
Note—The heavy figures denote that the diseases to which they are applied were most fatal in the Quarter to which they refer. |
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