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]
This page requires JavaScript
30
1914]
Table XXII.
Classified Causes of Death. | Quarters. | Year. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | 2nd. | 3rd. | 4th. | ||
I. Specific or Febrile Causes.. | 108 | 118 | 221 | 125 | 572 |
1. Miasmatic Diseases | 76 | 73 | 77 | 73 | 299 |
2. Diarrhceal ,, | 8 | 17 | 115 | 34 | 174 |
3. Malarial ,, | •• | •• | 1 | •• | 1 |
4. Zoogenous „ | •• | 2 | •• | •• | 2 |
5. Venereal ,, | 3 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 21 |
6. Septic „ | 21 | 22 | 19 | 13 | 75 |
II. Parasitic Diseases | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• |
III. Dietic | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
IV. Constitutional Diseases | 298 | 240 | 245 | 273 | 1,056 |
V. Developmental .. | 142 | 114 | 110 | 146 | 512 |
VI. Local | 787 | 546 | 500 | 655 | 2,488 |
1. Diseases of Nervous System | 109 | 81 | 75 | 98 | 363 |
2. „ Organs of Special Sense | •• | 10 | 2 | 2 | 14 |
3. „ Circulatory System | 188 | 162 | 143 | 167 | 660 |
4. „ Respiratory ,, | 348 | 184 | 125 | 239 | 896 |
5. ,, Digestive ,, | 74 | 46 | 100 | 84 | 304 |
6. ,, Lymphatic ,, | 6 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 15 |
7. „Urinary „ | 53 | 50 | 41 | 49 | 193 |
8. „ Reproductive ,, | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 18 |
9. ,, Bones and Joints | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
10. „ Integumentary System | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 15 |
VII, Violence | 53 | 49 | 43 | 56 | 201 |
1. Accident or Negligence | 45 | 34 | 34 | 52 | 165 |
2. Homicide | •• | 1 | 2 | •• | 3 |
3. Suicide | 8 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 33 |
•• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• |
VIII. Ill-defined Causes | 24 | 30 | 20 | 24 | 98 |
All Causes | 1,414 | 1,100 | 1,143 | 1,281 | 4,938 |
Note—The heavy figures denote that the diseases to which they are applied were most fatal in the
Quarter to which they refer.