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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-C. ST. PANCRAS PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 3rd Quarter of 1888. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Reaidents occurring in Public Inatitutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths of Reaidenta occurring in Public Inatitutiona Bituated beyond the limits of the District are included.

Table No. 3-C. ST. PANCRAS PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 3rd Quarter of 1888. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Reaidents occurring in Public Inatitutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths of Reaidenta occurring in Public Inatitutiona Bituated 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 6585 & upwardsTotalsUnder 5 years
I.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasma tic Diseases.
Small- pox.Vaccinated............1..................1...
Unyaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles437I........................4241
Scarlet Fever...84......1...............138
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough14191........................3433
Diphtheria3147......1......1......2017
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever.......................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...124112...1......121
Other Miasmatic Diseases.......................................
2.—Diarrhceal Diseases.
Simple Cholera3..............................33
Diarrhoea, Dysentery5010............1311...7569
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
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.....................1.........1...
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas1......1.....................21
Pyaemia, Septicæmia............1..................1...
Puerperal Fever............11...............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............1..................1...
Delirium Tremers.......................................
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart......11......1............3...
Rheumatism.................................5...
Gout.......................................
Rickets22...........................44
Cancer, Malignant Disease.........1151095...132...
Tabes Mesenterica2121...1..................2523
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus5421.....................129
Phthisis1221220221581......833
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula6.........12...............106
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis....................................
Anæmia Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia...1...........................11
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mollitus.........1.........3.........4...
Other Constitutional Diseases.......................................