Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Forty-eighth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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1903]
Table XXII.
| Classified Causes of Death. | Quarters. | Year. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st. | 2nd. | 3rd. | 4th. | ||
| I. Specific or Febrile Causes | 155 | 127 | 75 | 576 | |
| 1. Miasmatic Diseases | 124 | 51 | 37 | 401 | |
| 2. Diarrhœal ,, | 10 | 10 | 24 | 109 | |
| 3. Malarial ,, | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 4. Zoogenous ,, | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| 5. Venereal ,, | 5 | 2 | 19 | ||
| 6. Septic ,, | 13 | 5 | 12 | 46 | |
| II. Parasitic Diseases | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | |
| III. Dietic | 9 | 3 | 34 | ||
| IV. Constitutional Diseases | 252 | 262 | 272 | 1070 | |
| V. Developmental | 107 | 86 | 95 | 402 | |
| VI. Local | 584 | 456 | 632 | 2,366 | |
| 1. Diseases of Nervous System | 90 | 68 | 92 | 348 | |
| 2. ,, Organs of Special Sense | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17 | |
| 3. ,, Circulatory System | 147 | 127 | 153 | 591 | |
| 4. ,, Respiratory „ | 188 | 115 | 260 | 874 | |
| 5. „ Digestive „ | 71 | 78 | 76 | 308 | |
| 6. ,, Lymphatic „ | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 7. ,, Urinary „ | 38 | 41 | 30 | 152 | |
| 8. ,, Reproductive ,, | 7 | 8 | 8 | 33 | |
| 9. Bones and Joints | 3 | 4 | 3 | 16 | |
| 10. „ Integumentary System | 3 | 3 | 5 | 16 | |
| VII. Violence | 47 | 43 | 46 | 190 | |
| 1. Accident or Negligence | 34 | 26 | 34 | 135 | |
| 2 Homicide | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| 3. Suicide | 10 | 12 | 10 | 46 | |
| 4. Execution | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 |
| VIII. Ill-defined Causes | 47 | 38 | 46 | 199 | |
| All Causes | 1,226 | 1,031 | 1,199 | 4,839 | |
Note.—The heavy figures denote that the diseases to which they are applied were most fatal in the
Quarter to which they referred.