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Table A.—DEATHS registered during the year 1896 in the Parish of St. James's, Westminster—a Metropolitan District.
Classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
Localities.
Mortality from all causes,
at subjoined Ages.
Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing deaths of children under five.
At all Ages.
Under 1.
1—5.
5—15.
15—25.
25—65.
65 & upwards.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
Ages.
Smallpox.
Scarlet Fever
Diphtheria.
Membranous
Croup.
Fevers.
Cholera.
Erysipelas.
Measles.
Whooping
Cough.
Diarrhœa and
Dysentery.
Rheumatic
Fever.
Phthisis.
Bronchitis,
Pneumonia
and Pleurisy.
Heart
Disease.
Cancer. *
Injuries.
All other
Diseases.
Total.
Typhus.
Enteric.§
Continued.
Relapsing.
Puerperal.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
(i)
Parish of St. James
(minus Union-House
and Throat Hospital)
257
58
37
10
8
81
63
Under 5
...
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
24
3
7
...
...
16
2
...
2
39
95
5 upwds.
......
...
1
...
...
1
...
...
1
...
2
2
...
1
3
22
24
20
8
6
71
162
Westminster UnionHouse,
Poland St.
68
7
•••
...
...
24
37
Under 5
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
5
7
5 upwds.
...
...
...
...
•••
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
4
9
12
1
...
35
61
Throat Hospital,
Golden Square
17
...
3
1
1
11
1
Under 5
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
2
3
5 upwds.
......
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
1
...
6
...
6
14
Totals
342
65
40
11
9
116
101
Under 5
...
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
25
3
8
...
...
17
2
...
2
46
105
5 upwds.
...
...
1
...
...
1
...
...
l
...
2
2
...
1
3
27
34
31
15
6
113
237
The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of Mortality.
Deaths occurring outside
the district among persons
belonging thereto†
98
10
10
4
8
50
16
Under 5
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
3
...
2
...
2
3
...
...
1
8
20
5 upwds.
...
2
...
1
...
2
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
16
5
5
12
3
33
78
Deaths occur'g within the
district among persons
not belonging thereto
44
3
3
1
1
21
15
Under 5
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
1
...
...
...
4
6
5 upwds.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
3
4
3
6
1
21
38
* In the model form the heading of column 19 is left blank for the insertion of any other disease which it may be thought desirable to record. I have inserted "Cancer."
‡ The term "Scarlatina," when used for mild cases of Scarlet Fever, often suggests that the disease is not infectious. As this is a dangerous mistake, the one term only is used—
Scarlet Fever.
§ Enteric Fever is still often called "Typhoid." The term Typhoid arose from the supposition that this fever was akin to Typhus. It is now known to be a distinct fever,
marked by an affection of the lining membrane of the intestine, which is as characteristic as is the affection of the skin in Small Pox. It is best described as Enteric Fever.
† More precisely, those figures are of "persons removed from St. James's." Some of these were more or less casually in the Parish, and are not fairly described as "belonging thereto."