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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Classes. | Classes and Orders or Disease. | London. Population: 2,774,338. | St. Giles's. Population 54,300. | ||
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Estimated Quota. 1: 51.1. | Actual Registered Mortality. | Corrected for Deaths in Hosps. | |||
All Causes | 61617 | 1258.3 | 1340 | 1414 | |
Specified Causes | 60872 | 1191.2 | 1322 | 1396 | |
(Classes.) | |||||
I | Zymotic Diseases | 16758 | 327.9 | 361 | 374 |
II | Constitutional „ | 12455 | 243.7 | 324 | 347 |
III | Local „ | 22677 | 443.8 | 480 | 506 |
IV | Developmental | 6959 | 136.2 | 124 | 124 |
V | Violent Deaths | 2023 | 39.6 | 33 | 45 |
(Orders.) | |||||
I | 1 Miasmatic Diseases | 15508 | 303.5 | 339 | 348 |
2 Enthetio „ | 336 | 6.5 | 3 | 4 | |
3 Dietic „ | 762 | 14.9 | 19 | 22 | |
4 Parasitic „ | 152 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | |
II | 1 Diathetic Diseases | 2153 | 42.1 | 48 | 57 |
2 Tubercular „ | 10302 | 201.6 | 276 | 290 | |
III | 1 Diseases of Nervous System | 6557 | 128.3 | 161 | 164 |
2 „ „ Organs of Circulation | 2679 | 52.4 | 46 | 51 | |
8 „ „ Respiratory Organs | 9305 | 182.2 | 217 | 224 | |
4 ,, „ Digestive Organs | 2645 | 51.7 | 41 | 43 | |
5 „ „ Urinary Organs | 837 | 16.4 | 8 | 14 | |
6 „ „ Organs of Generation | 231 | 4.5 | 4 | 4 | |
7 „ „ Organs of Locomotion | 160 | 3.1 | 1 | 4 | |
8 „ „ Integumentary Organs | 263 | 5.2 | 2 | 2 | |
IV | I Dev: Dis. of Children | 1831 | 35.5 | 20 | 20 |
2 „ „ Adults | 272 | 5.3 | 12 | 12 | |
3 ., „ Old People | 2279 | 44.1 | 62 | 62 | |
4 Diseases of Nutrition | 2577 | 50.0 | 30 | 30 | |
V | 1 Accident | 1673 | 32.4 | 26 | 38 |
4 Suicide | 256 | 5.0 | 5 | 5 | |
All oiher Violent Deaths | 94 | 1.8 | 2 | 2 | |
Sudden Deaths | 247 | 4.8 | 3 | 3 | |
Cause unspecified | 498 | 9.6 | 15 | 15 | |
Certain Special Diseases of Zymotic Class and Miasmatic Order. | |||||
I. 1. | Small Pox | 1156 | 22.4 | 22 | 22 |
Measles | 1305 | 25.3 | 51 | 52 | |
Scarlatina and Diphtheritis | 4197 | 81.3 | 79 | 82 | |
Whooping Cough | 1741 | 33.7 | 66 | 66 | |
Diarrhoea | 3335 | 62.6 | 66 | 66 | |
Typhus & other Fevers,continued and remittent | 1890 | 36.6 | 25 | 26 |