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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 1897

Forty-second 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 during the 52 weeks ending 1st January 1898 at three periods of life.

Table E. Showing the Deaths from All Causes registered in each Quarter during the 52 weeks ending 1st January 1898 at three periods of life.

Causes of Death.1st Quarter.Total2nd Quarter.Total3rd Quarter.Total4th Quarter.TotalTotal for Year
Under 11 to5Over 5Under 11 to 5Over 5Under 11 to5Over 5Under 11 to 5Over 5
I.S pecific, Febrile, &c,3274441501634308015567492713910370218719
II. Parasitic Diseases...................................................
III. Dtetic Diseases......89......992...68......7733
IV. Constitutional Diseases25272152672319226208432620927315222342711084
V. Developmental Diseases6010913033...589144...5910376...92168492
VI. Local Diseases102685807567350396519116403745301721124997832594
VII. Deaths from Violence1552343124324812235491302746186
VIII. Deaths from 111 defined Causes61236659340074889065......65287
TOTALS29017794814212161107551081446149740133538024393515585395
I. Specific or Febrile Causes.227337132123226702147321009810164193495
1-Miasmatic Diseases...................................................
Small Pox vaccinated...................................................
Unknown........................1......1............1
Measles112215...2...2...718115747297
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)...14418...63918615...4151961
Diphtheria2271140213621214824...181230115
Whooping; Cough17201381010...2016182361520136130
Typhus Fever...................................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......77......77......1212......181844
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever...................................................
Influenza2...1214...110111...3422141847
Other Miasmatic Diseases...................................................
2.—Diarrhoeal Diseases3...1421...312720915062311174
Simple Cholera........................2327............7
Cholera...................................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery3...1421...312517714962311167
3.—Malarial Diseases...................................................
Remittent Fever...................................................
Ague...................................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases...................................................
Cow Pox, Effects of Vaccination...................................................
Hydrophobia...................................................
Glanders...................................................
Splenic Fever...................................................
6.—Venereal Diseases4......421146...175......520
Syphilis4......421146...175......520
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra...................................................
6.-Septic Diseases31610......331...78......9930
Erysipelas1...12......221...34......3311
Pyæmia,Septicæmia2125..................33......119
Puerperal Fever......33......11......11......5510
Il. Parasitic Diseases...................................................
Thrush...................................................
Hydatids...................................................
Worms...................................................
Other Animal Parasitical Diseases...................................................