Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Forty-second annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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39 [1897
Table XXIV.
Classified Causes of Death. | Quarters. | Year. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st. | 2nd. | 3rd. | 4th. | ||
I. Specific on Febrile Causes | 150 | 80 | 271 | 218 | 719 |
1. Miasmatic Diseases | 132 | 70 | 100 | 193 | 495 |
2. Diarrhœal „ | 4 | 3 | 156 | 11 | 174 |
3. Malarial ,, | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
4. Zoogenous ,, | .. | .. | .. | .... | .. |
5. Venereal ,, | 4 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
6. Septic | 10 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 30 |
II. Parasitic Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
III. Dietic | 9 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 33 |
IV. Constitutional Diseases | 267 | 268 | 278 | 271 | 1,084 |
V. Developmental „ | 130 | 91 | 103 | 168 | 492 |
VI. Local | 756 | 519 | 536 | 783 | 2,594 |
1. Diseases of Nervous System | 145 | 112 | 132 | 129 | 518 |
2. ,, Organs of Special Sense | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 18 |
3. ,, Circulatory System | 136 | 118 | 99 | 125 | 478 |
4. ,, Respiratory ,, | 327 | 152 | 107 | 389 | 975 |
5. ,, Digestive ,, | 80 | 80 | 142 | 78 | 380 |
6. „ Lymphatic ,, | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 2 |
7. ,, Glandlike Organs of uncertain use | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 3 |
8. „ Urinary System | 42 | 34 | 32 | 41 | 149 |
9. „ Reproductive System | 10 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 31 |
10. ,, Bones and Joints | 6 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 22 |
11. „ Integumentary | 5 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 18 |
VII. Violence | 43 | 48 | 49 | 46 | 186 |
1. Accident or Negligence | 38 | 38 | 38 | 40 | 154 |
2. Homicide | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
3. Suicide | 3 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 26 |
VIII. Ill-defined Causes | 66 | 66 | 90 | 65 | 287 |
All causes | 1,421 | 1,081 | 1,335 | 1,558 | 5,395 |