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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-.F Camden Town 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 and excluded, and the Deaths of Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

Table No. 3-.F Camden Town 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 and 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 8535 and upwardsTotalsunder 5 year
I.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small-pox.Vaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles15...........................66
Scarlet Fever...3............1............43
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough33...........................66
Diphtheria121........................43
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever.......................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...2......1..................32
Other Miasmatic Diseases.......................................
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases....
Simple Cholera.......................................
Diarrhœa, Dysentery134...........................1717
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever....................................... I
Ague....................................... |
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination.......................................
Other Diseases (e gHydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).......................................
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis3..............................33
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6 —Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas.....................11......2...
Pyæmia, Septicæmia.......................................
Puerperal Fever............2..................2...
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases.......................................
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.......................................
III.— Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation2..............................22
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism..................2............2...
Delirium Tremens.......................................
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart.......................................
Rheumatism.......................................
Gout...........................1...1...
Rickets31...........................44
Cancer, Malignant Disease...............11221...73
Tabes Mesenterica3............1...............42
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus11.........1...............32
Phthisis111371031.........273
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula12l........................4
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis.......................................
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia...1...........................11
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitos...............1...l.........2...
Other Constitutional Diseases.......................................
V.—Developmental Diseases.
Premature Birth8..............................88
Atelectasis2..............................22
Congenital Malformations2..............................22
Old Age.........•••......2176218...
VI —Local- Diseases.
1. Nervous System. — Inflammation of Brain or Membranes3......1.....................43
Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis...............134l1...10...