Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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TABLE IV.—Comparison of Mortality from various causes in London and in St. Giles's. Four Quarters, 1859.
Class. | Classes and Orders op Disease. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | ||||||||
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London. | St. Giles. | London. | St. Giles. | London. | St. Giles. | London. | St. Giles. | ||||||
Estimated Quota. | Actual Number. | Estimated Quota. | Actual Number. | Estimated Quota. | Actual Number. | Estimated Quota. | Actual Number. | ||||||
All causes | 16147 15967 | 323.0 | 368 | 13724 | 274.5 | 344 | 16010 | 320.2 | 341 | 15730 | 314.6 | 361 | |
Specified causes | 319.4 | 364 | 13580 | 271.6 | 339 | 15755 | 315.1 | 338 | 15570 | 311.4 | 355 | ||
(Classes.) | |||||||||||||
I. | Zymotic Diseases | 3796 | 75.9 | 77 | 3135 | 62.7 | 94 | 6978 | 119.6 | 121 | 3849 | 77.0 | 82 |
II. | Constitutional „ | 3096 | 61.9 | 91 | 3182 | 63.6 | 94 | 3213 | 64.3 | 81 | 2964 | 69.3 | 81 |
III. | Local „ | 6772 | 135.5 | 155 | 5249 | 105.0 | 114 | 4222 | 84.4 | 93 | 6434 | 128.7 | 144 |
IV. | Developmental „ | 1778 | 35.6 | 3i> | 1526 | 30.5 | 28 | 1872 | 37.4 | 32 | 1783 | 35.6 | 34 |
V. | Violent Deaths | 525 | 10.5 | 11 | 488 | 9.8 | 9 | 470 | 9.4 | 11 | 540 | 10.8 | 14 |
(Orders.) | |||||||||||||
I. | 1. Miasmatic Diseases | 3549 | 71.0 | 73 | 2857 | 57.2 | 85 | 5566 | 111.3 | 115 | 3536 | 70.7 | 75 |
2. Enthetic „ | 79 | 1.5 | 1 | 89 | 1.8 | 3 | 83 | 1.7 | 85 | 1.7 | |||
3. Dietic „ | 144 | 2.9 | 3 | 159 | 3.2 | 6 | 255 | 5.1 | 204 | 4.1 | 7 | ||
4. Parasitic „ | 24 | .5 | ... | 30 | .6 | 74 | 1.5 | ... | 24 | .5 | ... | ||
II. | 1. Diathetic „ | 540 | 10.8 | 12 | 542 | 10.8 | 19 | 539 | 10.8 | 6 | 532 | 10.6 | 20 |
2. Tubercular „ | 2556 | 51.1 | 79 | 2640 | 52.8 | 75 | 2674 | 53.5 | 5 | 2432 | 48.7 | 61 | |
III. | 1. Dis. of Nervous System . | 1849 | 37.0 | 51 | 1589 | 31.8 | 45 | 1485 | 29.7 | 32 | 1634 | 32.7 | 36 |
2. „ Organs of Circulation | 716 | 14.3 | 18 | 667 | 13.3 | 12 | 567 | 11.3 | 10 | 730 | 14.6 | 11 | |
3. „ Respiratory Organs | 3188 | 63.8 | 71 | 1974 | 39.5 | 41 | 1073 | 21.5 | 27 | 3070 | 61.4 | 85 | |
4. „ Digestive ditto | 629 | 12.6 | 11 | 632 | 12.7 | 8 | 744 | 14.9 | 16 | 640 | 12.8 | 8 | |
5. „ Urinary ditto | 211 | 4.2 | 2 | 220 | 4.4 | 6 | 203 | 4.0 | 4 | 203 | 4.1 | 2 | |
6. „ Organs of Generation | 59 | 1.2 | 2 | 61 | 1.2 | 1 | 51 | 1.0 | 1 | 60 | 1.2 | ... | |
7. „ „ Locomotion | 40 | .8 | ... | 55 | 1.1 | 1 | 39 | .8 | 2 | 26 | .5 | 1 | |
8. „ Integumentary System | 81 | 1.6 | ... | 51 | 1.0 | ... | 60 | 1.2 | 1 | 71 | 1.4 | 1 | |
IV. | 1. Dev. Dis. of Children | 495 | 9.9 | 7 | 454 | 9.1 | 5 | 437 | 8.7 | 5 | 445 | 8.9 | 3 |
2. „ „ Adults | 73 | 1.5 | 2 | 52 | 1.0 | 4 | 56 | 1.1 | 5 | 91 | 1.8 | 1 | |
3. „ „ Old People | 614 | 12.3 | 14 | 483 | 9.7 | 16 | 525 | 10.5 | 10 | 657 | 13.1 | 22 | |
4. Diseases of Nutrition | 596 | 11.9 | 7 | 537 | 10.7 | 3 | 854 | 17.1 | 12 | 590 | 11.8 | 8 | |
V. | 1. Accident | 436 | 8.7 | 9 | 395 | 7.9 | 8 | 395 | 7.9 | 8 | 447 | 9.0 | 12 |
4. Suicide | 64 | 1.3 | ... | 71 | 1.4 | 1 | 54 | 1.1 | 2 | 67 | 1.3 | 2 | |
All other Violent Deaths | 25 | .5 | 2 | 22 | .5 | ... | 21 | .4 | ... | 26 | .5 | ... | |
Sudden Deaths | 84 | 1.7 | 1 | 50 | 1.0 | 1 | 57 | 1.1 | ... | 56 | 1.1 | 1 | |
Cause unspecified | 96 | 1.9 | 3 | 94 | 1.9 | 4 | 198 | 4.0 | 3 | 110 | 2.2 | 5 | |
I.1 | Certain Special Disease Small Pox | 201 | 4.0 | 2 | 233 | 4.7 | 2 | 287 | 5.7 | 4 | 435 | 8.7 | 14 |
Measles | 373 | 7.5 | 2 | 304 | 6.1 | 25 | 231 | 4.6 | 14 | 397 | 7.9 | 11 | |
Scarlatina and Diphtheritic | 1167 | 23.3 | 27 | 794 | 15.9 | 13 | 968 | 19.4 | 14 | 1268 | 25.4 | 28 | |
Whooping Cough | 702 | 14.0 | 26 | 485 | 9.7 | 24 | 248 | 4.9 | 11 | 311 | 6.2 | 5 | |
Diarrhoea | 153 | 3.1 | 2 | 189 | 3.8 | 1 | 2743 | 54.8 | 57 | 250 | 5.0 | 6 | |
Typhus & other Fev. continued and remit- tent | 454 | 9.1 | 4 | 430 | 8.6 | 11 | 535 | 10.7 | 8 | 471 | 9.4 | 5 |