Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The fifth annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the District of Woolwich for the year 1893
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TABLE IV.
Table of Deaths during the year 1891, in the Urban Sanitary District of Woolwich, classified according to Diseases, distinguishing those under 5 years of age and those over 5 years of age.
District. | Age. | Mortality from subjoined causes distinguishing Deaths of Children under 5 years. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Small-pox. | Influenza. | Measles. | Sc arlatina. | Diphtheria. | Croup (not Spasmodic.) | Whooping Cough | Continued Fevers. | Diarhoea and Dysentry. | Cholera. | Rheumatic Fever | Erysipelas. | Pyaemia. | Puerperal Fever. | Ague. | Phthisis | Bronchitis, Pneumonia.& Pleurisy | Heart Disease. | Injuries, etc. | All other Disease | Total. | ||||
Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Other or Doubtful. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Woolw ch Dockyard | Under 5 | .. | 2 | 11 | 8 | .. | 2 | 8 | .. | .. | .. | 15 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 25 | .. | 3 | 83 | 160 |
Over 5 | 2 | 3 | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 4 | .. | 6 | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | 2 | .. | 33 | 53 | 13 | 14 | 100 | 241 | |
Woolwich Arsenal | Under 5 | .. | .. | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | .. | .. | .. | 11 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 28 | .. | 7 | 88 | 155 |
Over 5 | 1 | 5 | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 53 | 54 | 33 | 20 | 112 | 292 | |
Total | Under 5 | .. | 2 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 19 | .. | .. | .. | 26 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 53 | .. | 10 | 171 | 315 |
Over 5 | 3 | 8 | .. | 5 | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | 5 | .. | 7 | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | 4 | .. | 86 | 107 | 46 | 34 | 212 | 533 | |
Deaths occurring outside the District among per sons belonging thereto | Under | .. | .. | 1 | 7 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 5 | 13 |
Over 5 | 3 | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 26 | 10 | 7 | 68 | 163 | |
Deaths occurring within the District among persons not belonging thereto | Under 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 |
Over 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 18 | |
3 cases of Small Pox, 8 of Scarlet Fever, and 2 of Enteric Fever died in Hospital. 7 eases of Scarlet Fever, and 3 of Enteric Fever died at home. |