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 of Disease. | London. | Sr. Gills', Population, 54049. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Population, 2,803 939 | Estimated Quota.* | Actual Registered Mortality. | Corrected for Deaths in Hosptls. | ||
All Causes | 65001 | 1252.9 | 1385 | 1461 | |
Specified Causes | 64288 | 1239.1 | 1368 | 1440 | |
Classes. | |||||
Zymotic Diseases | % 15710 | 302.8 | 328 | 339 | |
Constitutional „ | 13082 | 252.1 | 299 | 315 | |
Local ,, | 25569 | 492.9 | 598 | 635 | |
IV | Developmental,, | 7680 | 148.0 | 120 | 120 |
V | Violent Deaths | 2247 | 43.3 | 23 | 31 |
I | Orders. | ||||
14459 | 278.7 | 297 | 307 | ||
2 Enthetic „ | 390 | 7.5 | 17 | 17 | |
3 Dietic ,, | 720 | 13.9 | 12 | 13 | |
4 Parasitic „ | 141 | 2.7 | 2 | 2 | |
2258 | 43.5 | 32 | 34 | ||
2 Tubercular „ | 10821 | 208.7 | 267 | 281 | |
6736 | 129.8 | 162 | 166 | ||
2 „ Organs of Circulation | 2850 | 54.9 | 71 | 79 | |
3 ,, Respiratory Organs | 11 735 | 226.2 | 292 | 303 | |
4 „ Digestive Organs | 2735 | 52.7 | 49 | 53 | |
5 „ Urinary Organs | 899 | 17.3 | 17 | 24 | |
6 ,, Organs of Generation | 206 | 4.0 | 3 | 3 | |
7 „ Organs of Locomotion | 174 | 3.4 | 2 | 4 | |
8 „ Integumentary Organs | 234 | 4.5 | 2 | 3 | |
IV | 1 Dev: Dis. of Children | 2037 | 39.3 | 35 | 35 |
2 ,, ,, Adults | 250 | 4.8 | 4 | 4 | |
3 „ „ Old People | 2516 | 48.5 | 54 | 54 | |
4 Diseases of Nutrition | 2877 | 55.4 | 27 | 27 | |
V | 1870 | 36.0 | 14 | 21 | |
2 Suicide | 261 | 5 | 5 | ||
All other Violent Deaths | 116 | 2.2 | 4 | 5 | |
Sudden Deaths | 164 | 3.2 | |||
Cases unspecified | 549 | 10.6 | 16 | 20 | |
Small Pox | 215 | 4.1 | 1 | ||
Measles | 1070 | 20.6 | 32 | 32 | |
Scarlatina | 2358 | 45.4 | 67 | 08 | |
Diphtheritis | 697 | 13.4 | 12 | 14 | |
Croup | 855 | 16.5 | 42 | 43 | |
Whooping Cough | 3497 | 67.4 | 54 | 54 | |
Diarrhoea | 2625 | 51.8 | 32 | 33 | |
Typhus & other Fevers, continued and remittent | 1852 | 35.7 | 43 | 44 |
* 1÷51.88 part of the entire mortality of the Town. The Registered Mortality has been
subjected to a small reduction for errors.