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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) 1865
[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 54,00.0. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population. 2,993,513 | Estimated Quota.* | Actual Registered Mortality. | Corrected for Deaths in Hosptls. | ||
| All Causes | 73460 | 1325.1 | 1581 | 1596 | |
| Specified Causes | 72551 | 1308.7 | 1578 | 1593 | |
| Classes. | |||||
| I. | Zymotic Diseases | 18058 | 325.7 | 401 | 392 |
| II. | Constitutional | 14415 | 260.0 | 320 | 335 |
| III. | Local | 28826 | 520.0 | 627 | 654 |
| IV. | Developmental | 8606 | 155.2 | 195 | 154 |
| V. | Violent Deaths | 2646 | 47.7 | 35 | 58 |
| Orders. | |||||
| I. | 1 Miasmatic | 16539 | 298.4 | 369 | 368 |
| 2 Enthetic „ | 441 | 7.9 | 8 | 10 | |
| 3 Dietic „ | 880 | 15.8 | 23 | 14 | |
| 4 Parasitic „ | 198 | 3.6 | 1 | ... | |
| II. | 1 Diathetic Diseases | 2483 | 44.8 | 48 | 57 |
| 2 Tubercular Diseases | 11932 | 215.2 | 272 | 278 | |
| III. | 1 Diseases of Nervous System | 7892 | 142.3 | 134 | 134 |
| 2 „ Organs of Circulation | 3456 | 62.3 | 78 | 86 | |
| 3 „ Riespiratory Organs | 12545 | 226.3 | 350 | 358 | |
| 4 „ Digestive Organs | 3091 | 55.6 | 35 | 43 | |
| 5 „ Urinary Organs | 1088 | 19.7 | 19 | 22 | |
| 6 „ Organs of Generation | 268 | 4.8 | 4 | 4 | |
| 7 „ Organs of Locomotion | 239 | 4.3 | 3 | 4 | |
| 8 „ Integumentary Organs | 247 | 4.5 | 4 | 3 | |
| IV. | 1 Dev: Dis. of Children | 2077 | 37.5 | 41 | 41 |
| 2 „ „ Adult | 310 | 5.6 | 7 | 7 | |
| 3 „ „ Old People | 2721 | 49.0 | 43 | 43 | |
| 4 Diseases of Nutrition | 3498 | 63.0 | 104 | 63 | |
| V | 1 Accident or Negligence | 2241 | 40.4 | 31 | 53 |
| 3 Homicide | 132 | 2.4 | 1 | 1 | |
| 4 Suicide | 267 | 4.8 | 3 | 4 | |
| All other Violent Deaths | 6 | 0.1 | ... | ... | |
| Sudden Death | 191 | 3.4 | ... | ... | |
| Causes unspecified | 718 | 13.0 | 3 | 3 | |
| 1.1. | Small Pox | 646 | 11.6 | 9 | 9 |
| Measles | 1302 | 23.5 | 12 | 12 | |
| Scarlatina | 2181 | 39.3 | 36 | 36 | |
| Diphtheritis | 433 | 7.8 | 7 | 8 | |
| Croup | 742 | 13.4 | 10 | 10 | |
| Whooping | 2921 | 52.5 | 83 | 75 | |
| Diarrhœa | 3557 | 64.2 | 94 | 79 | |
| Typhus & other Fevers,continued, remittent and puerperal | 3428 | 62.1 | 89 | 115 | |
* 1:- 55.4th part of the entire mortality of the Town. The number of Deaths registered
in the District, has here been subjected to the correction of 4 noted at foot of table
on page 3.