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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

St Luke 1893

Report on the sanitary condition, vital statistics, &c., of the Parish of St. Luke, Middlesex for the year 1893

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Table: TABLE III.—continued.

TABLE III.—continued.

CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.Total under 5 years of Age.Grand Total all Ages.
0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 6565 and upwds
III. Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation5...............55
Scurvy........................
Chronic Alcoholism........................
Delirium Tremens.........1.........1
5......1......56
IV. Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart.........11......2
Rheumatism............23...5
Gout...............2...2
Rickets...1............11
Cancer, Malignant Disease1.........194124
Tabes Mesenterica165............2121
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus642.........1012
Phthisis345108727111
Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula66...21...1114
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis???...............11
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leutocythæmia........................
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus............1......1
Other Constitutional Diseases........................
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