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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) 1866

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]

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Table: TABLE III.- Causes of Death in St. Giles's in 1866, with the Ages at Death.(Correction is here made for deaths in Hospitals and in the Infants' Home.

TABLE III.- Causes of Death in St. Giles's in 1866, with the Ages at Death.

(Correction is here made for deaths in Hospitals and in the Infants' Home.

Class.Causes of Death.At all Ages.Under | 2 years.2 and tinder 5.5 and under 10.10 and under 20.20 and under 25.25 and under 35.35 and under 45.45 and under 55.55 and under 65.65 and under 75.75 and under 85.85 and upwards.
Males.Females.Total.
All cnuscs8177531570542159615740101149131148114599
Specified causes8057471552530159615739101147130146114599
I.(Classes.) Zymotic Diseases21619340918375281671629192691...
IIConstitutional „171163334542912201952644528101...
III.Local319289608176521815102846648877313
IVDevelopmental„7280152962...2243......14230
V.Violent Deaths272249211341152443...
I.(Orders.) I Miasmatic Diseases18817636415773281571523152281...
2 Enthetic „11617111.........13...1.........
3 Dietic „171027141...1......3431......
4 Parasitic...111.................................
II.1 Diathetic „102339133......1781051...
2 Tubercular „155140295532692019515737185......
III.1 Diseases of Nervous System6764131471633...468191681
2 „ of Organs of Circulation404585.........3381320171281
3 „ of Respiratory Organs170130300114321014712253535141
4 „ of Digestive Organs24265034...3287599......
5 „ of Urinary Organs131023......12...164531...
6 „ of Organs of Generation...44..................1111......
7 „ of Organs of Locomotion410141...431...1121......
8 „ of Integumentary System1...11.................................
IV1 Dev. Diseases of Children21183939.................................
2 „ of Adults...1111.........2243...............
3 „ of Old People152843...........................14236
4 Diseases of Nutrition362359572..............................
V.I Accident or Negligence22204219124...142333...
3 Homicide2132...1...........................
4 Suicide314............1...1...11......
5 Execution.............................................
Violent Deaths not classed.............................................
Sudden Deaths, cause unascertained.............................................
Causes not specified or ill-defined1261812.........1...212.........