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St Pancras 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: Table No. 3-A. SAINT PANCRAS PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1886. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths of Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

Table No. 3-A. SAINT PANCRAS PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1886. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths of Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

AGES.
0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 6585 and upwardsTotalsunder 5 years
I.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases. 1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Smallpox.Vaccinated...............1...............1...
Unvaccinated...............1...............1...
No Statement.......................................
Measles259561.....................127120
Scarlet Fever316222...1............2619
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough41709........................120111
Diphtheria719151...2...............4126
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever...1.........1...............21
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...3759311.........293
Other Miasmatic Diseases.......................................
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera...1...........................11
Diarrhœa, Dysentery204441...2113351265248
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever.......................................
Ague............1..................1...
4 —Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination.......................................
Other Diseases (e g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever)...1...........................11
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis27212212............3729
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra.....................1...1...2...
6 —Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas3...2112342......183
Pyaemia, Septicæmia...11111.........51
Puerperal Fever.........18..................9...
II.—Parasitic Diseases,
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases61...........................77
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases............1..................1...
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation13...............1...1......1513
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism...............16831......28...
Delirium Tremers............1...1...1......3...
IV..—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart.........133231......13...
Rheumatism......1............121...5...
Gout..................1612...10...
Rickets912...........................2121
Cancer, Malignant Disease...1...2...192636291331291
Tabes Mesenterica47254121...............8072
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus27299131...............7056
Phthisis41111601361208444131...48415
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula23175333111......5740
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis2..................1.........32
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythremia1l2l12121......122
Glycosuria. Diabetes Mellitus...113132323...191
Other Constitutional Diseases..................1............1...
V.—Developmental Diseases.
Premature Birth111..............................111111
Atelectasis13..............................1313
Congenital Malformations132...........................1515
Old Age..................258316373326...
VI —Local Diseases.
1. Nervous System. — Inflammation of Brain or Membranes303981321............8469
Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis.........1616345579314229...