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St Pancras 1887

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

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Table No. 3—B. ST. PANCRAS PARISH.
Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 2nd Quarter of 1887.

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 8535 and upwardsTotalsunder 5 years
I.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Smallpox.Vaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement....................................
Measles6224........................3228
Scarlet Fever111........................32
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough31412........................7472
Diphtheria124...1..................83
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever.........1.....................1...
Entcric or Typhoid Fever.................................1...
Other Miasmatic Diseases.....................1...............
2.—Diarrhceal Diseases....
Simple Cholera..................1............1...
Diarrhoea, Dysentery121.........1.........1...1513
3.—Malo.rial Diseases.
Remittent Fever.......................................
Ague.......................................
4 —Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination........................................
Other Diseases (eg.. Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).......................................
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis3.........1...1............53
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra..................1......1...2...
6 —Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas...............1...1.........2...
Pyæmia, Septicæmia......l......1...............2...
Puerperal Fever.........111............3...
II.—Parasitic Diseases,
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases1..............................11
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.......................................
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation.......................................
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism...............1...13......6...
Delirium Tremens............1...1............2...
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart......111......1.........4...
Rheumatism........................3......3...
Gout.....................21......3...
Rickets15...........................66
Cancer, Malignant Disease......1...277655...33...
Tabes Mesenterica74...........................1111
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus...812.....................118
Phthisis314928262414......1104
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula72423111.........219
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis11...........................22
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia............l1...............2...
Glycosuria. Diabetes Mellitus...............2......11...4...
Other Constitutional Diseases.........l.....................1...
V.—Developmental Diseases.
Premature Birth28..............................2828
Atelectasis4..............................44
Congenital Malformations5..............................55
Old Age.....................22291165...
VI —Local Diseases.
1.—Hervous System.
Inflammation of Brain or Membranes62232.....................3328
Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis............26814202153...
Insanity, Genl. Paralysis of the Insane.........1323332...17...
Epilepsy.........11111.........5...
Convulsions1221......1...............1614
Laryngismus Stridulus (Spasm of Glottis)3..............................38
Liseases of Spinal Cord, Paraplegia, Paralysis Agitans...............11331...9...
Other Disease of Nervous System........................2......2...
2.— Organs of Special Sense
(e.g., of Ear, Eye, Nose)...1...........................11