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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-D- Gray's Inn Lane 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 are excluded, and the Deaths of Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

Table No. 3-D- Gray's Inn Lane 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 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 8585 and upwardsTotalsunder 5 years
I.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small-pox..Vaccinated...............1...............1...
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles322...........................2525
Scarlet Fever21l1.....................53
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough3102........................1513
Diphtheria13...........................44
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever...............l...............1...
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......21......1............4...
Other Miasmatic Diseases.......................................
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera.......................................
Diarrhœa, Dysentery389............12...1...5147
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.
Syphilis3...1...1..................53
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas............111............3...
Pyaemia, Septicæemia.......................................
Puerperal Fever.......................................
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases.......................................
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.......................................
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation.......................................
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism...............34............7...
Delirium Tremers....................................
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart...............1...............1...
Rheumatism........................1......1...
Gout.......................................
Rickets1..............................11
Cancer, Malignant Disease...1.........24521...151
Tabes Mesenterica75l1.....................1412
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus44212..................138
Phthisis.........1026211872......81...
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula521........................87
Purpura, Hœmorrhagic Diathesis.......................................
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythaemia......1......l...............2...
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus........................2......2...
Other Constitutional Diseases..................1............1...
V.—Developmental Diseases.
Premature Birth14..............................1414
Atelectasis3..............................33
Congenital Malformations1..............................11
Old Age.....................920837...
VI —Local Diseases.
1. Nervous System. — Inflammation of Brain or Membranes362........................119
Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis.........12478144141...