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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1908]
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Table XXII.
Classified Causes of Death. | Quarters. | Year. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st. | 2nd. | 3rd. | 4th. | ||
I. Specific or Febrile Causes | 143 | 87 | 129 | 149 | 508 |
1. Miasmatic Diseases | 114 | 68 | 48 | 96 | 326 |
2. Diarrhæal ,, | 12 | 3 | 72 | 30 | 117 |
3. Malarial ,, | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
4. Zoogenous ,, | 1 | . . | . . | . . | 1 |
5. Venereal ,, | 7 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 20 |
6. Septic ,, | 9 | 12 | 7 | 16 | 44 |
II. Parasitic Diseases | . . | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
III. Dietic | 5 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 26 |
IV. Constitutional Diseases | 258 | 250 | 248 | 292 | 1,048 |
V. Developmental | 115 | 85 | 71 | 127 | 398 |
VI. Local | 777 | 510 | 453 | 639 | 2,379 |
1. Diseases of Nervous System | 81 | 70 | 61 | 58 | 270 |
2. ,, Organs of Special Sense | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
3. ,, Circulatory System | 163 | 129 | 148 | 179 | 619 |
4. „ Respiratory „ | 396 | 191 | 90 | 250 | 927 |
5. ,, Digestive „ | 66 | 70 | 86 | 89 | 311 |
6. ,, Lymphatic „ | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
7. ,, Urinary ,, | 48 | 31 | 51 | 50 | 180 |
8. ,, Reproductive ,, | 7 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 30 |
9.,, Bones and Joints ,, | 7 | 3 | . . | 2 | 12 |
10. ,, Integumentary System .. | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
VII. Violence | 49 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 169 |
1. Accident or Negligence | 42 | 23 | 29 | 30 | 124 |
2. Homicide | 2 | 1 | 4 | . . | 7 |
3. Suicide | 5 | 15 | 7 | 11 | 38 |
4. Execution | . . | . . | •• | . . | . . |
VIII. Ill-defined Causes | 40 | 28 | 35 | 44 | 147 |
All Causes | 1,387 | 1,010 | 984 | 1,298 | 4,679 |
Note—The heavy figures denote that the diseases to which they are applied were most fatal in the
Quarter to which they refer.