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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Giles (Camden) 1864
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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| Classes. | Classes and Orders of Disease. | London. | St. Giles's, Population 54,034. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population, 2,948,96.3 | Estimated Quota.* | Actual Registered Mortality. | Corrected for Deaths in Hosptls. | ||
| All Causes | 77723 | 1423.5 | 1601 | 1675 | |
| Specified Causes | 76872 | 1401.3 | 1593 | 1664 | |
| Classes. | |||||
| I. | Zymotic Diseases | 20051 | 366.6 | 346 | 357 |
| II. | Constitutional „ | 14237 | 260.8 | 346 | 360 |
| III. | Local „ | 31367 | 574.6 | 699 | 737 |
| IV | Development , | 8673 | 158.8 | 163 | 163 |
| V. | Violent Deaths | 2535 | 46.4 | 39 | 47 |
| Orders. | |||||
| I. | 1 Miasmatic Diseases | 18673 | 341.9 | 316 | 326 |
| 2 Enthetic „ | 418 | 7.6 | 13 | 13 | |
| 3 Dietic „ | 804 | 14.7 | 14 | 15 | |
| 4 Parasitic „ | 156 | 2.8 | 3 | 3 | |
| II. | 1 Diathetic Diseases | 2502 | 45.8 | 37 | 45 |
| 2 Tubercular Diseases | 11735 | 217.6 | 309 | 315 | |
| III. | 1 Diseases of Nervous System | 7844 | 143.7 | 142 | 147 |
| 2 „ Organs of Circulation | 3536 | 64.7 | 84 | 94 | |
| 3 „ Respiratory Organs | 15201 | 278.4 | 397 | 406 | |
| 4 „ Digestive Organs | 2964 | 54.3. | 50 | 59 | |
| 5 „ Urinary Organs | 1086 | 19.9 | 18 | 22 | |
| 6 „ Organs of Generation | 255 | 4.6 | 4 | 4 | |
| 7 „ Organs of Locomotion | 250 | 4.6 | 4 | 5 | |
| 8 „ Integumentary Organs | 240 | 4.4 | … | … | |
| IV. | 1 Dev: Dis. of Children | 2179 | 40.0 | 52 | 52 |
| 2 „ „ Adults | 323 | 5.9 | 5 | 5 | |
| 3 „ „ Old People | 2972 | 54.4 | 54 | 54 | |
| 4 Diseases of Nutrition | 3199 | 5S.6 | 52 | 52 | |
| V. | 1 Accident or Negligence | 2139 | 36.2 | 35 | 42 |
| 3 Homicide | 126 | 2.3 | 4 | 4 | |
| 4 Suicide | 259 | 4.7 | … | … | |
| All other Violent Deaths | 11 | 0.2 | … | 1 | |
| Sudden Deaths | 185 | 3.4 | … | … | |
| Causes unspecified | 666 | 12.2 | 8 | 11 | |
| Certain Special Diseases of Zymotic Class and Miasmatic Order. | |||||
| 1.1. | |||||
| Small Pox | 537 | 9.8 | 12 | 12 | |
| Measles | 2750 | 50.4 | 38 | 38 | |
| Scarlatina | 3242 | 60.9 | 53 | 57 | |
| Diphtheritis | 564 | 10.3 | 9 | 10 | |
| Croup | 882 | 16.1 | 11 | 11 | |
| Whooping Cough | 2386 | 43.7 | 34 | 34 | |
| Diarrhœa | 2861 | 52.4 | 56 | 56 | |
| Typhus & other Fevers,continued, remittent and puerperal | 4050 | 74.2 | 83 | 85 | |
*1:-54.6th part of the entire mortality of the Town. The number of Deaths registered
in the District, has here been subjected to the correction noted at foot of table on
page 3.