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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-C- Tottenham Court Sub.District.Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1886. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District an excluded, and the Deaths of Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

Table No. 3-C- Tottenham Court Sub.District.Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1886. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District an 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 8585 and upwardsTotalsunder 5 years
I.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small-pox.Vaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles2161........................1918
Scarlet Fever...1...........................11
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough3114........................1814
Diphtheria...2...........................22
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever.......................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......2...11...............4...
Other Miasmatic Diseases.......................................
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera.......................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery201......1..................2221
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever.......................................
Ague.......................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination.......................................
Other Diseases (e g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).......................................
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis8......1.....................98
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra.....................1.........1...
6 —Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas.........1.........1.........2...
Pyœmia, Septicaemia.......................................
Puerperal Fever.........1.....................1...
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases1..............................11
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases............1..................1...
III.—Dietic Diseases
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation1...............1............21
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism...............2...1.........3...
Delirium Tremers..................l............1...
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart.....................1.........1• ••
Rheumatism.......................................
Gout.......................................
Rickets...1...........................11
Cancer, Malignant Disease...............52443119...
Tabes Mesenterica461........................1110
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus322...1..................85
Phthisis...1...816171261......611
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula24......11......1......96
Purpura, Hœmorrhagic Diathesis.......................................
Ansemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæasmia1............1...............21
Glycosuria. Diabetes Mellitus.......................................
Other Constitutional Disease.......................................
V.—Developmental Diseases.
Premature Birth21..............................2121
Atelectasis1..............................11
Congenital Malformations2..............................22
Old Age.....................369523...
VI— Local Diseases.
1. Nervous System. — Inflammation of Brain or Membranes321........................65
Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis...............33632...17...