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St Pancras 1888

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

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Table: Table No. 3—B. ST. PANCRAS PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 2nd Quarter of 1888. Note.—The Deatha 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 Distriot are included.

Table No. 3—B. ST. PANCRAS PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 2nd Quarter of 1888. Note.—The Deatha 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 Distriot are included.

ages.
0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 & upwardsTotalsUnder 5 years
I.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Smallpox.vaccinated.......................................
| Unvaccinated.......................................
. No Statement.......................................
Measles3101......1...............1513
Scarlet Fever2331.....................95
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough9263........................3835
Diphtheria182........................119
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever.......................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...43121......1......124
Other Miasmatic Diseases.......................................
2.—Diarrhceal Diseases.
Simple Cholera...1...........................11
Diarrhoea, Dysentery113...............1...1...1614
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever.......................................
Ague.......................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination1..............................11
Other Diseases (e.g.. Hydrophobia
Glanders, Splenic Fever).......................................
5.—Venereal Diseases-
Syphilis121.........1...............1413
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas5...............111...195
Pyaemia, Septicaemia3...............1............43
Puerperal Fever.........13..................4...
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases2..............................22
Worms, Hydatids, and other Anima Parasitic Diseases.....................1.........1...
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation.......................................
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism...............411.........6...
Delirium Tremens............1..................1...
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart.........31..................4...
Rheumatism...............2...............2...
Gout.....................1.........1...
Rickets...1...........................11
Cancer, Malignant Disease............2268113234...
Tabes Mesenterica9511.....................1614
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus574........................1612
Phthisis...3315263027721...1143
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula872212...............2215
Purpura, Haemorrhagic Diathesis.......................................
Anaemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythaemia...........................1...1...
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus......1...1......1.........3...
Other Constitutional Diseases.......................................