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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 1896

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

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Table: Table E. Showing the Deaths from All Causes registered in each Quarter daring th 53 weeks ending 2nd January 1897 at three periods of life.

Table E. Showing the Deaths from All Causes registered in each Quarter daring th 53 weeks ending 2nd January 1897 at three periods of life.

Causes of Death.1st Quarter.Total2nd Quarter.Total3rd Quarter.Total4th Quarter.TotalTotalforYear
Under 11 to 5Over 5Under 11 to5Over 5Un-der 11 to5Over 5Under 11 to5Over 5
I. Specific, Febrile. &c.8120565351711596429415294613072071671581110
II. Parasitic Diseases...............112......2......114
III. Dietic Diseases4...8121...89......662...121441
IV. Constitutional Diseases23202062493150215296422320627123202633061122
V. Developmental Diseases53...6712043...479552...449656162119430
VI. Local Diseases140114549803947340357012742379548166955227832704
VII. Deaths from Violence157406219330526427371972955206
VIII. Deaths from Ill- defined Causes579167549265681...69641166267
TOTALS37335593616643182947701382449164723133635019595715025884
I. Specific or Febrile Causes.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases75205603406315649268348051165157150136909
Small PoxVaccinated...................................................
Unvaccinated..............................11............1
Unknown...................................................
Measles3812210170196328471442536...9288
Scarlet Fever (Scaratina)...5510...5611...1151621082057
Diphtheria3332056340246733521591432165247
Whooping Cough324137641487962220244810...18234
Typhus Fever...................................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...11213......552...12141...131446
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever...112....................................2
Influenza22913......55......66......8933
Other Miasmatic Diseases.......................................l...11
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases2...13822121111471324...26153
Simple Cholera........................113...14............14
Cholera...................................................
Diarrhœa, Dysentery2...13822121001171184...26139
3.-Malarial Diseases...................................................
Remittent Fever.................................................
Ague...................................................
4.-Zoogenous Diseases...................................................
Cow Pox, Effects of Vaccination...................................................
Hydrophobia...................................................
Glanders...................................................
Splenic Fever...................................................
5.-Venereal Diseases2......2...l343......31......110
Syphilis2......2...1233......31......19
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra..................11........................l
6.-Septic Diseases2...46......10104...37......151538
Erysipelas1...34......224...26......4416
Pyæmia, Septicœmia1......1......55..................5511
Puerperal Fever......11......33......11......6611
7.- Parasitic Diseases..................112......2......114
Thrush........................1......1............1
Hydatids...................................................
Worms..........................................111
Other Animal Parasitical Diseases..................111......1............2