Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Forty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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1904]
Table XXII.
Showing the
| Classified Causes of Death. | Quarters. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st. | 2nd. | 3rd. | 4th. | Year. | |
| I. Specific or Febrile Causes | 133 | 139 | 342 | 134 | 748 |
| 1. Miasmatic Diseases | 89 | 118 | 96 | 96 | 399 |
| 2. Diarrhœal ,, | 14 | 6 | 230 | 10 | 260 |
| 3. Malarial ,, | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 4. Zoogenous ,, | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 |
| 5. Venereal ,, | 4 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 20 |
| 6. Septic ,, | 28 | 8 | 9 | 25 | 67 |
| II. Parasitic Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| III. Dietic | 10 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 28 |
| IV. Constitutional Diseases | 294 | 264 | 260 | 298 | 1,116 |
| V. Developmental | 104 | 83 | 92 | 388 | |
| VI. Local | 515 | 459 | 780 | 2,560 | |
| 1. Diseases of Nervous System | 87 | 80 | 87 | 351 | |
| 2. „ Organs of Special Sense | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| 3. ,, Circulatory System | 149 | 149 | 185 | 674 | |
| 4. „ Respiratory „ | 163 | 103 | 364 | 995 | |
| 5. ,, Digestive ,, | 65 | 76 | 77 | 305 | |
| 6. ,, Lymphatic „ | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | |
| 7. ,, Urinary „ | 36 | 32 | 47 | 164 | |
| 8. ,, Reproductive „ | 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 33 |
| 9. ,, Bones and Joints | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | |
| 10. ,, Integumentary System | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| VII. Violence | 53 | 38 | 63 | 48 | 202 |
| 1. Accident or Negligence | 44 | 26 | 50 | 38 | 158 |
| 2. Homicide | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |
| 3. Suicide | 8 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 40 |
| 4. Execution | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
| VIII. Ill-defined Causes | 31 | 41 | 69 | 53 | 194 |
| All Causes | 1,106 | 1,284 | 1,410 | 5,236 | |
Note.—The heavy figures denote that the diseases to which they are applied were most fatal in the
Quarter to which they referred.