London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Islington 1896

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

This page requires JavaScript

Table: Table C. Showing Deaths from, All Causes during the Year 1896. (Deaths of Non-Residents in Hospitals excluded). (Deaths of Residents in Public Institutions are distributed).

Table C. Showing Deaths from, All Causes during the Year 1896. (Deaths of Non-Residents in Hospitals excluded). (Deaths of Residents in Public Institutions are distributed).

Causes of Death.Under 11to55to 1515to 2525 to3535 to4545to 5555 to 6565to7575 to 8585 to9595 and upwards.Under 5Over 5Males.Females.Totals.
I. Specific. Febrile. &c.324529137252420231567......853257555555111
II. Parasitic Diseases2...1......1..................22224
III. Dietic Diseases7......18911311......73420214
IV. Constitutional Diseases1191133783121186191134104304...232890561561112
V. Developmental Diseases2091...............76110446221022020722343
VI. Local Diseases5273249110211622831232340423641...851185314301274270
VII. Deaths from Violence5921111720212611146......801261307620
VIII. Deaths from Ill-defined Causes24320......1...1...11......263415411326
TOTALS149010082772282904655644935913859122498338630592825588
I. Specific or Febrile Causes.
1. Miasmatic Diseases18751213621141212645......699210452457909
Small PoxVaccinated...................................................
Unvaccinated......1..............................11...1
Unknown...................................................
Measles6720516...........................27216147141288
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)23123...1.....................3324292857
Diphtheria101518231.....................16186126121247
Whooping Cough103119101...............1......22212102132234
Typhus Fever...................................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever3131681032............442242246
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever...11...........................112...2
lnfluenza23...1429444......528211233
Other Miasmatic Diseases...1..............................1......11
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases12516.........33312......141128568153
Simple Cholera113..............................14...7714
Cholera...................................................
Diarrhœa, Dysentery11413.........33312......127127861139
3.-Malarial Diseases...................................................
Remitient Fever...................................................
Ague...................................................
4.-Zoogenous Diseases...................................................
Cow Pox, Effects of Vaccination...................................................
Hydrophobia...................................................
Glanders...................................................
Splenic Fever...................................................
5.-Venereal Diseases61.........12...............734610
Syphilis61.........11...............72369
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra..................1..................11...1
6.—Septic Diseases6...14104661.........632142438
Erysipelas5.........32411.........5117916
Pyæmia, Septicæmia1...111...25............1107411
Puerperal Fever.........362.....................11...1111
II. Parasitic Diseases2...1......1..................22224
Thrush1.................................1...1...1
Hydatids...................................................
Worms...1..............................11...1
Other Animal Parasitical Diseases1............1..................11...22