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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) 1876

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

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Table: TABLE IV—Diseases in Orders—(Continued).

TABLE IV—Diseases in Orders—(Continued).

Class.Causes of Death.At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 20.20 and nnder 40.40 and nnder 60.60 and under 80.80 and upwards.Sub-Districts.
Males.Females.Total.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.
I.Order 1.
1 Small Pox.......................................
2 Measles7815411...............267
3 Scarlatina192342425121.........121614
4 Diphtheritis.......................................
5 Quinsey.......................................
6 Croup224121............1...3
7 Whooping Cough25244917275............91921
8 Continued Fevers, Typhus, &c.7310142111...415
9 Erysipelas73105......122...361
10 Metria.......................................
11 Carbuncle.......................................
12 Influenza.......................................
13 Dysentery.......................................
14 Diarrhœa31225337141......1....152810
15 Cholera........................................
16 Ague.......................................
17 Remittent Fever.......................................
18 Rheumatism325...1...13......131
19 Other Miasmatic Dis.......................................
Order 2.
1 Syphilis6399..................432
2 Stricture of Urethra.......................................
3 Hydrophobia.......................................
4 Glanders.......................................
Order 3.
1 Privation.......................................
2 Want of Breast Milk21321.....................3
3 Purpura and Scurvy.......................................
4 Alcoholism:—
a Delirium Tremens224.........22......13...
b Intemperance.......................................
Order 4.
1 Thrush1122..................2......
2 Worms.......................................
II.Order 1.
1 Gout.......................................
2 Dropsy3581111...1...251
3 Cancer51116.........3661943
4 Noma Canerum Ovis.......................................
5 Mortification224...............31121
Order 2.
1 Scrofula314112............2...2
2 Tabes Mesenterica178251591............6811
3 Phthisis56591152511473515...196333
4 Hydrocephalus19133211183............14810
III.Order 1.
1 Cephalitis.......................................
2 Apoplexy171330......1371636213
3 Paralysis111324............41737134
4 Insanity.......................................
5 Chorea.......................................
6 Epilepsy336......1131...141
7 Convulsions&Laryngismus1316292171............51311
8 Other Brain Diseases18102832549418128
Order 2.
1 Pericarditis...11......1............1...
2 Aneurism2...2............11......2...
3 Heart Disease, &c.2124452...651517...122211
Order 3.
1 Laryngitis12311......1......21...
2 Bronchitis128132260434569569566713261
3 Pleurisy5...5.........212......23
4 Pneumonia3534691516414983133719
5 Asthma213.........12......1...2
6 Other Lung Diseases7714311261...383