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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 1896

Report on the sanitary condition, vital statistics, &c., of the Parish of St. Luke, Middlesex for the year 1896

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Table: TABLE III.— continued.

TABLE III.— continued.

CAUSES OF DEATH.ages.
0to 11to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 6565 and upwardsTotal under 5 years of age.urand Total All Ages.
III. Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation........................
Scurvy........................
Chronic Alcoholism............41...5
Delirium Tremens............4......4
............81...9
IV. Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart........................
Rheumatism............• ••1...1
Gout............11...2
Rickets12............33
Cancer, Malignant Disease............162...18
Tabes Mesenterica53............88
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus310i...1...1315
Phthisis5949892...118
Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula55433...1020
Purpura, Hemorrhagic Diathesis........................
Anaemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythaemia...............1...1
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus............1......1
Other Constitutional Diseases1.........1...12
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