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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

Newington 1895

Fortieth annual report of the proceedings of the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary, Newington, London...

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Table: TABLE 5.Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1895.

TABLE 5.

Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1895.

AGES.
Under 3 months3 months to 1 year1 to 22 to 65 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 to 9595 and UpwardsTotal.
I. Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases53961345581112124111011......417
II. Parasitic Diseases11....................................2
III. Dietetic Diseases.........141......1...............7
IV. Constitutional Diseases2945301292141554930207......348
V. Developmental Diseases861.....................1205016...174
VI. Local Diseases10916817552192436711021061196810...1059
VII. Deaths from Violence221216...1261222......57
VIII. Deaths from Ill-Defined and Not Specified Causes123487..................1............179
Totals42337131712640589114415715117113826...2243
I.—SPECIFIC FEBRILE, OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small PoxUnvaccinated.............................................
No Statement.............................................
Measles...2574262...........................127
Scarlet Fever......12...2........................5
Typhus.............................................
Whooping Cough3173691...........................66
Diphtheria119153......1..................30
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever.........1..............................1
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...............3311...............8
Other Miasmatic Diseases.........1..............................1
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.Simple Cholera.............................................
Diarrhœa, Dysentery384612............2...142......105
3.—Malarial Diseases. Remittent Fever.............................................
Ague.............................................
Influenza112112783868......48
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.Cowpox and effects of Vaccination.............................................
Other Diseases (e.g. Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).............................................
5.—Venereal Diseases.Syphilis95....................................14
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra.............................................
6.—Septic Diseases. Erysipelas11......1..................1......4
Pyæmia, Septicaemia...............11......2............4
Puerperal Fever..................1.....................4
II.—PARASITIC DISEASES.Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases11....................................2
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.............................................
III.—DIETETIC DISEASES.Want of Breast Milk, Starvation.............................................
Scurvy.............................................
Chronic Alcoholism...............13.........1.........5
Delirium Tremens..................11..................2
IV.—CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart.....................21...............3
Rheumatism...........................111......3
Gout..............................2.........2
Rickets...17.................................8
Cancer, Malignant Diseases.....................51919126......61
Tabes Mesenterica18233.................................44
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus2149102...............1.........38