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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 1894

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

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deaths of 402 persons were registered. In the 4th quarter of the year
246 deaths were known, and in the 2nd and 3rd quarters the numbers
were respectively 202 and 123.
Diseases of the Digestive System were most numerous in the 3rd
quarter, when 92 deaths were registered. In the 4th quarter 82, in the
1st quarter 83, and in the second quarter 73 persons died.

Table: Table XXXI.The deaths in the Four Quarters.

Table XXXI.

The deaths in the Four Quarters.

Classified Causes of Death.Quarters.Year.
1st.2nd.3rd.4th.
I. Specific or Febrile Causes284286200128898
1. Miasmatic Diseases255273119107754
2. Diarrhœal „77701195
3. Malarial „..........
4. Zoögenous „1......1
5. Venereal „319417
6. Septic „1852631
II. Parasitic Diseases......11
III. Dietic „5512628
IV. Constitutional Diseases256241241259997
V. Developmental „1229790131440
VI. Local „8225594676062,454
1. Diseases of Nervous System157133123133546
2. „ Organs of Special Sense634114
3. „ Circulatory System1058975103372
4. „ Respiratory „402202123246973
5. „ Digestive „83739282330
6. „ Lymphatic „..........
7. „ Glandlike Organs of uncertain use..1....1
8. „ Urinary System32312023106
9. „ Reproductive System2158943
10. „ Bones and Joints468220
11. „ Integumentary121614749
VII. Violence59344040173
1. Accident or Negligence51263535147
2. Homicide11..13
3. Suicide775423
VIII. Ill-defined Causes65628164272
All causes1,6131,2841,1311,2355,263