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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 1898

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

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Table: Table C. Showing Deaths from, All Causes during the Year 1898. (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 1898. (Deaths of Non-Residents in Hospitals excluded). (Deaths of Residents in Public Institutions are distributed).

Causes of Death.Under 11 to 53 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 to 9595 and up wards.Under 5Over 5Males.Females.Totals.
I. specificFebric etc.3764685922152419222481...8441945095291038
II. Parasitic Diseases2.................................2...112
III. .Dietic Diseases2...1...3131051............33162035
IV. Constitutional Diseases105101418812810116813695424...2068615605071067
V. Developmental diseases22111............138017666...22233524331455;
VI. Local Diseases49831656801322192753633702113328141741130412512555
VII. Deaths from Violence661236131822211481...6810610965174
VIII. Deaths from 111 defined Causes24426...21...3...1.........2707157120271
TOTALS1504924161196292435497560586444105224283277289828075705
i. Specific or Febrile Causes.143422671710141317126156514735236)712
Small Poxvaccinated...................................................
Unvaccinated...................................................
Unknown...................................................
Measles65243161........................30317161164325
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatiua)2166......2..................18814122-3
Diphtheria66122...1.....................6723444690
Whooping Cough67965...........................16358187168
Typhus Fever.........1...........................111
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...16115742............135171936
Simple Continued & I11-defined Fever........................1............111
Influenza3524459151161...857333265
Other Miasmatic Diseases...................................................
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases22046.........41381......26617136147283
Simple Cholera91..............................10...6410
Cholera........................1............1...11
Diarrhoea, Dysentery21145.........41371......25616130142272
8.-Malarial Diseases...................................................
Remittent Fever...................................................
Ague...................................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases...................................................
Cow Pox, Effects of Vaccination...................................................
Hydrophobia...................................................
Glandrers................................................
Splenic Fever...................................................
6.—Venereal Diseases12.........212...2.........12713619
Syphilis12.........21...............1239615
Gonorrhœa. Stricture of Urethra..................2...2............444
6.—Septic Diseases1...25353221......12381624
Erysipelas......1......21121.........8268
Pyœmia, Septicamia1...111221............18639
Puerperal Fever..........421.....................7...77
11. Parasitic Diseases2.................................2...112
Thrush2.................................2...112
Hydatids...................................................
Worms................................................
Other Animal (?) Diseases.....................................................