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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

Islington 1893

Thirty-eighth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington

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Table: Table D. Showing the Deaths from all Causes registered in each District during the FiftyTwo Weeks ending 30th December 1893, at three periods of life

Table D. Showing the Deaths from all Causes registered in each District during the FiftyTwo Weeks ending 30th December 1893, at three periods of life

Causes of DeathsUpper Holloway.Islington, South West.Islington, South East.Highbury.
Under 11 to 5Over 5Under 11 to 5Over 5Under 11 to 5Over 5Under 11 to 5Over 5
I. Specific, Febrile, &c.105102101127164122598665424957
II. Parasitic Diseases.........2........................
III. Dietic Diseases......101 ...133...61...10
IV. Constitutional Diseases3022254484126838212042217128
V. Developmental Diseases40...8096110840...5745...59
VI. Local Diseases1198959519413374294924855939399
VII. Deaths from Violence1262531547139297121
VIII. Deaths from Ill-defined Causes103911488473314372
TOTALS4092271,0666473521,304320211847219113676
I. Specific or Febrile Causes.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases3089815214895167956204747
Small PoxVaccinated....................................
Unvaccinated1...1...........................
Unknown....................................
Measles5172153835181312...
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)112632314...77...98
Diphtheria32823146211291811210
Whooping Cough1829331402721214122
Typhus Fever......1...........................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...116113Z6......9
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever.........1............1.........
Influenza22291...4132212218
Other Miasmatic Diseases...............1..................
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases64123681383773202...
Simple Cholera....................................
Cholera....................................
Diarrhœa, Dysentery64123681383773202...
3.—Malarial Diseases....................................
Remittent Fever....................................
Ague....................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases....................................
Cow Pox, Effects of Vaccination....................................
Hydrophobia....................................
Glanders....................................
Splenic Fever....................................
5.—Venereal Diseases9......7115............2
Syphilis9......71...5............1
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra...............1...............1
6.—Septic Diseases2117...2181...62...8
Erysipelas2110......11......62...2
Pyaemia, Septicasmia......2...231............2
Puerperal Fever......5......4...............4
II. Parasitic Diseases.........2........................
Thrush.........2........................
Hydatids....................................
Worms....................................
Other Animal Parasitical Diseases....................................