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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TABLE III.
Comparison of Mortality from Various Causes in London and St. Giles, Whole Year, 1870, (52 Weeks.)
Classes. | Classes and Ord-ers of Disease. | London. | St. Giles Ppltn. 53,868 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Population, 3,214,707 | Estimated Quota.* | Actual Mortality incldng Deaths in Hospitals, &c | ||
All Causes | 77,278 | 1,288 | ||
Specified Causes | 76,831 | 1,281 | 1,455 | |
Classes | ||||
I. | Zymotic Diseases | 20,034 | 334 | 329 |
11. | Constitutional ,, | 14,437 | 241 | 275 |
III. | Local „ | 31,270 | 521 | 626 |
IV. | Developmental ,, | 8,514 | 142 | 187 |
Violent Deaths | 2,576 | 43 | 38 | |
Orders. | ||||
I. | 1 Miasmatic Diseases | 18,611 | 311 | 309 |
2 Enthetic ,, | 517 | 13 | ||
3 Dietic ,, | 726 | 12 | 7 | |
4 Parasitic ,, | 180 | 3 | — | |
II. | 1 Diathetic Diseases | 2,665 | 44 | 40 |
2 Tubercular Diseases | 11,772 | 196 | 235 | |
III. | 1 Diseases of Nervous System | 8,647 | 144 | 117 |
2 ,, Organs of Circulation | 3,649 | 61 | 64 | |
3 ,, Respiratory Organs | 13,906 | 232 | 363 | |
4 „ Digestive Organs | 3,033 | 51 | 57 | |
5 ,, Urinary Organs | 1,294 | 22 | 17 | |
6 ,, Organs of Generation | 235 | 4 | 2 | |
7 ,, Organs of Locomotion | 274 | 5 | 4 | |
8 ,, Integumentary Organs | 232 | 4 | 2 | |
1 Dev: Dis. of Children | 2, 099 | 35 | 31 | |
2 ,, ,, Adults | 316 | 5 | 14 | |
3 „ ,, Old People | 2,743 | 46 | 43 | |
4 Diseases of Nutrition | 3,356 | 56 | 99 | |
V | 1 Accident or Negligence | 2,153 | 36 | 33 |
3 homicide | 106 | 2 | - | |
4 Suicide | 273 | 5 | 5 | |
All other Violent Deaths | 44 | 1 | — | |
79 | 1 | 17 | ||
Causes unspecified | 368 | 1 | ||
11. | Small Pox | 958 | 16 | 15 |
Measles | 1,443 | 24 | 29 | |
Scarlatina | 5,998 | 100 | 103 | |
Diphtheritis | 313 | 5 | 4 | |
Croup | 582 | 10 | 12 | |
Whooping Cough | 1,935 | 32 | 16 | |
Diarrhœa | 3,776 | 63 | 83 | |
Typhus & other continued Fevers | 2,053 | 35 | 31 |
* l-59,8th part of the entire mortality of the Town, as calculated upon the estimated
population of St, Giles and London.