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 VII.
Table op Deaths during the Year 1897, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. Giles, Classified according to Diseases. Ages, and Localities.
Names op Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being- shown as separate localities. | Mortality from all Causes, at subjoined Ages. | Mortality prom subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths op Children under Five Years op Age. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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At all ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | ||
Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy. | Heart Disease. | Injuries. | All Other Diseases. | Total. | |||||||||||||
Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing, | Puerperal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (/) | (g) | (h) | (i) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
St. George, Bloomsbury | 141 | 38 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 46 | 39 | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | 8 | - | 3 | 27 | 48 |
5 u pwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 12 | 15 | 16 | 4 | - | - | ||||||||
St. Giles, South | 160 | 62 | 19 | 5 | 6 | 56 | 12 | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 9 | 10 | - | - | - | 19 | - | 3 | 37 | 81 |
5 upwards | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -_ | 17 | 6 | 15 | - | - | - | |||||||||
St. Giles, North | 86 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 36 | 17 | under 5 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | - | -_ | — | -_ | 1 | 4 | - | - | -_ | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 24 | 60 | ||||||||
Workhouse | 121 | 5 | 2 | _- | 3 | 69 | 42 | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 7 | |
5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 40 | 17 | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
British Lying-in Hospital | 2 | 1 | -_ | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | -- | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
5 upwards | - | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||
The French Hospital | 32 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | 24 | 3 | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 30 | |||||||||
Totals | 542 | 122 | 43 | 8 | 24 | 232 | 113 | under 5 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 16 | 13 | - | - | - | 33 | 1 | 9 | 83 | - |
5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | — | 105 | 52 | 61 | 16 | 143 | 377 | |||||||||
The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deaths occurring outside the district among persons belonging thereto | 199 | 24 | 27 | 13 | 11 | 99 | 25 | under 5 | - | 6 | 3 | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
5 upwards | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | -- | -- | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto | 65 | 5 | - | 1 | 2 | 39 | 18 | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 19 | 60 |