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Islington 1897

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

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Table E.—continued.

Cause of Death.1st Quarter.Total2nd Quarter.Total3rd Quarter.Total4th Quarter.TotalTotal for Year
Under 11 to5Over 5Under 11 to i5Over 5Under 11 to 6Over 5Under 11 to 5Over5
III. Dietlc Diseases1...89......992...68......7733
Starvation, Want of Breast Milk1......1............2......2............3
Scurvy...................................................
Chronic Alcoholism, Delirium Trem.......88......99......66......7730
IV. Constitutional Diseases25272152672319226268432620927815222.342711084
Rheumatic Fever, & Rheum of Heart......22......88......55......5520
Rheumatism......44....................................4
Gout......33......22......11...1239
Rickets11...2...3...35......5...43717
Cancer. Malignant Disease......6666......8989...16970......7979304
Gangrene...134......33......22...11211
Tabes Mesenterica132...159111123723210211371
Tubercir Meningitis, Hydrocephalus6133228106246104203941682
Phthisis410128142441071156511712815129135520
Other Tubercular and Scrofulous Dis1......1......1132381...5616
Purpura Hæmorrhagic Diathesis......11...1...1........................2
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia......221...34...145......1112
33b5223313
Otner Constitutional Diseases.........i12113
60109130335891445910376
494927273737fii
5ft22337
2211
Congenital Malformations...........415334488?n
6969685859599292278
VI. Local Diseases. 1—Diseases of Nervous Sybt»m .2210113145178871123189313232,889129518
Inflammation of Brain or Membranes8b1745817133132966ft17hu
Apoplexy .................................424213283130313536141
Softening of Brain..........................88336666
33ftft8844
Brain Paralysis ...........................2a11
I nsanity.Geul.Paralysis of the Insane...2222141417171818
Epilepsy.........................................I144c.54414
1321lb8iylb42023112ft70
Laryngismus Stridulus;..................b54431413
Paralysis Agitans ........................
Paraplegia.....................................23231212777
Diseases of Spinal Cord...................3314525744ltf
Other Diseases of Nervous System ..33I4b22551ft
2. -Dis. of Organs of Special Sense2242l471341113
Ear, Diseases ot ...........................132l47134111317
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3.—Diseases of Circulatory Syt>tem31331362116118396999?121125
Endocarditis...............................2•2221144
A alvular Diseases of Heart..............19192b2524?4?.<2896
Pericarditis .................................11
Other Diseases of the Heart ........S91022Ki8b363662?7377
Aneurism .....................................6644337
Embolism. Thrombosis .................661133
Other Diseases of Blood Vessels .....11112244
4.—Diseases cf Respiratory Svst'm5151225327323090152?,1966010711692181
Croup ......................................2132132217210
Laryngitis......................................2638224112221418
13418618IX83141029536b27119
Pneumonia ...................................182470112121526537122443495ft51Iftft363
Pleurisy.........................................1114b13412313
Emphys* ma...................................221111
Asthma . ..................................13132222?2
Other Diseases of Respiratory Organi231111227