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St Giles (Camden) 1878

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

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TABLE III.

Table: Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1878. (The Deaths in Public Institutions of Non-Residents being excluded.)

Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1878. (The Deaths in Public Institutions of Non-Residents being excluded.)

causes of death.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 20.20 and under 40.40 and under 60.60 and under 80.80 and upwards.Total under 5 years.Grand Total.Sub-Districts.
St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.
(classes.)
I. ZYMOTIC DISEASES877717967...164203469265
II. CONSTITUTIONAL162211686017138195499848
III. LOCAL816716481421305148489114259116
IV. DEVELOPMENTAL8722...542517109160328840
V. VIOLENT DEATHS14154102...1536111213
Not specified111212...28332
Total28619050136223183234761,091255552284
I. ZYMOTIC DISEASES. Order 1.—miasmatic.
Measles318...............2121588
Small Pox....................................
Scarlet Fever...54............59...63
Diphtheria...42............46132
Croup141............56231
Whooping Cough26372............6365142031
Typhus....................................
Enteric or Typhoid...26211...212278
Simple continued Fever...1...............11...1...
Erysipelas2.........1......2312...
Puerperal Fever (Metria).........3............3111
Carbuncle...............2......2...2...
Diarrhœa42............3...475015269
Rheumatism......2...3.........5...41
Order 2 —enthetic.
Syphilis101...1.........1112255
Order 3.—dietic.
Want of Breast Milk1..................111......
Alcoholism.........311......5221
Order 4.—parasitic.
Thrush2..................22...2...
Total877717967164203469265
II. CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. Order 1.—diathetic.
Gout............11......21...1
Dropsy.........2521...10154
Cancer.........274......13715
Mortification...............1......1...1...
Order 2.—tubercular.
Scrofula31...............4422...
Tabes Mesenterica3211.........57151
Phthisis...31063...9...3132287430
Hydrocephalus1016...............26269107
Total162211686017138195499848
III. LOCAL DISEASES. Order 1.—nervous system.
Cephalitis......111.........3111
Apoplexy......12918......309183
Paralysis............8142...242193
Insanity............2......2...2...
Epilepsy......1...11......3...21
Convulsions18131............313291310
Brain Disease, &c....1...222...17...52
Order 2.—organs of circulation.
Pericarditis....................................
Aneurism.........11.........21...1
Heart Disease, &c.......162313......43102112
Carried forward18145124550232146328133