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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) 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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| Want of Breast Milk, Starvation | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alcoholism | — | - | - | - | 9 | - | - | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 1 | - |
| Rheumatism | - | -_ | -_ | - | 1 | -__ | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Gout | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Rickets | - | 3 | - | -_ | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | 3 | - |
| Cancer | - | - | - | 1 | 17 | 4 | - | 22 | 9 | 9 | 4 |
| Tabes Mesenterica | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Tubercular Meningitis | 1 | 7 | - | - | - | - | 8 | g | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| Phthisis | 1 | 13 | 103 | 12 | 129 | 13 | 81 | 35 | |||
| Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 4 | 10 | o4 | |
| Other Constitutional Diseases | |||||||||||
| DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Premature Birth | 20 | 20 | 20 | 5 | 10 | 5 | |||||
| Atelectasis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Congenital Malformation | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| Old Age | — | — | — | — | 1 | 32 | 33 | 9 | 18 | 6 | |
| LOCAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Apoplexy | 12 | 10 | 22 | 2 | 13 | 7 | |||||
| Epilepsy | — | — | — | 2 | 7 | 2 | — | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
| Convulsions | 15 | 4 | — | — | 19 | 19 | 4 | 11 | 4 | ||
| Other Diseases of Brain and Nervous System | — | — | — | 16 | 10 | 26 | 4 | 18 | 4 | ||
| Diseases of Organs of Special Sense | -- | — | |||||||||
| Diseases of Circulatory System | 2 | 3 | 3 | 38 | 19 | 2 | 65 | 20 | 32 | 13 | |
| Croup | 1 | 1 | 1 | i1 | |||||||
| Bronchitis | 26 | 13 | 26 | 18 | 39 | 83 | 23 | 43 | 17 | ||
| Pneumonia | 6 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 9 | 26 | 5 | 12 | 9 | |
| Pleurisy | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Other Diseases of Respiratory System | 1 | 2 | — | — | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||