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St Giles (Camden) 1872

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

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TABLE 7.

Comparison of Mortality from Various Causes in London and St. Giles, Whole Year, 1872, (52 Weeks.)

Classes.Classes and Orders of Disease.London.St .Giles Ppltn. 53,429.
Population, 3,251,804Estimated Quota.*Actual Mortality inciting Deaths in Hospitals, &c
All Causes70,8931,1641,263
Specified Causes70,6391,1601,255
Classes.
I.Zymotic Diseases16,236266238
II.Constitutional „13,891228246
III.Local „29,921491589
IV.Developmental7,983131142
V.Violent Deaths2,6084340
I.Orders.
1 Miasmatic Diseases17,75242211
2 Enthetic „510816
3 Dietic819135
4 Parasitic „15736
II.1 Diathetic Diseases2,5314141
2 Tubercular Diseases11,360186205
III.1 Diseases of Nervous System7 ,855129133
2 „ Organs of Circulation3,8026270
3 „ Respiratory Organs12,985213297
4 „ Digestive Organs3,1312217
5 „ Urinary Organs1,3315159
6 „ Organs of Generation2592217
7 „ Organs of Locomotion33555
8 „ Integumentary Organs22346
IV.1 Dev: Dis. of Children2,0573442
2 „ „ Adults26048
3 „ „ Old Peonle.2,2953726
4 Diseases of Nutrition3,3715566
V.1 Accident or Negligence2,1693635
3 Homicide12522
4 Suicide26843
All other Violent Deaths461-
Sudden Deaths, cause unascertained40
Causes unspecified28348
Certain Special Diseases of Zymotic Class and Miasmatic Order,
1.1.Small Pox1,781298
Measles1,6802737
Scarlatina904155
Diphtheritis25545
Croup616109
Whooping Cough3,2495342
Diarrhœa3,4905771
Typhus & other continued Fevers1,340229
*1:- 60.9th part of the entire mortality of the Town, as calculated upon the estimated population of St. Giles and London.