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.—Dkaths Registered from all Causes in the Year 1897 (inclusive of the Deaths of Parishioners at Hospitals and Public Institutions outside the District).
CAUSES OF DEATH. | AGES. | Total under Five Years of Age. | Grand Total all Ages. | SUB-DISTRICTS. | |||||||
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0 to 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | St. George, Bloomsbury. | St. Giles, South. | St. Giles, North. | |||
CLASSES. | |||||||||||
I. Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases | 28 | 24 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 52 | 75 | 17 | 40 | 18 | |
II. Parasitic Diseases | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
III. Dietic Diseases | — | — | — | — | 9 | — | — | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
IV. Constitutional Diseases | 2 | 14 | 3 | 28 | 130 | 17 | 16 | 186 | 31 | 111 | 44 |
V. Developmental Diseases | 26 | — | — | — | 1 | 32 | 26 | 59 | 17 | 31 | 11 |
VI. Local Diseases | 65 | 30 | 4 | 12 | 159 | 77 | 95 | 347 | 101 | 171 | 75 |
VII. Deaths from Violence | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 6 | 10 | 44 | 11 | 19 | 14 |
VIII. Deaths from ill-defined and not-specified Causes | 16 | 1 | — | — | 3 | 1 | 17 | 21 | 8 | 11 | 2 |
Total all Causes | 146 | 70 | 21 | 35 | 331 | 138 | 216 | 741 | 187 | 389 | 165 |
ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
Small Pox, Vaccinated | |||||||||||
Ditto Unvaccinated . | _- | ||||||||||
Ditto No Statement | _- | — | — | ||||||||
Measles | 3 | 5 | 1 | — | — | — | 8 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
Scarlet Fever | 6 | 1 | — | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||
Typhus | — | — | — | — | |||||||
Whooping-Cough | 10 | 7 | 1 | — | 17 | 18 | 3 | 11 | 4 | ||
Diphtheria | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||
Simple Continued, Ill-defined, or Relapsing Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
Enteric or Typhoid Fever | _- | 3 | _- | 3 | — | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||
Influenza | — | — | — | 2 | 4 | — | 6 | 1 | 5 | ||
Simple Cholera | _- | — | |||||||||
Diarrhoea, Dysentry | 12 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 12 | 1 | ||
Remittent Fever | — | — | |||||||||
Hydrophobia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Glanders | — | — | —- | — | — | — | — | — | — | _ | _ |
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Venereal Affections | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — |
Erysipelas. | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | |||||
Pyaemia, Septicemia | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
Puerperal Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Other Zymotic Diseases | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
PARASITIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
Thrush | |||||||||||
Worms, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |