Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fiftieth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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Table XXII.
Classified Causes of Death. | Quarters. | Year. | |||
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1st. | 2nd. | 3rd. | 4th. | ||
I. Specific or Febrile Causes | 125 | 126 | 231 | 163 | 645 |
1. Miasmatic Diseases | 100 | 100 | 60 | 120 | 380 |
2. Diarrhoeal ,, | 8 | 14 | 159 | 25 | 206 |
3. Malarial ,, | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
4. Zoogenous „ | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
5. Venereal „ | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 18 |
C. Septic ,, | 11 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 39 |
II. Parasitic Diseases | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 3 |
III. Dietic | 7 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 31 |
IV. Constitutional Diseases | 285 | 229 | 223 | 270 | 1 007 |
V. Developmental | 111 | 97 | 102 | 112 | 422 |
VI. Local | 708 | 636 | 419 | 764 | 2,527 |
1. Diseases of Nervous System | 82 | 89 | 72 | 94 | 337 |
2. ,, Organs of Special Sense | 5 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 21 |
3. ,, Circulatory System | 153 | 184 | 128 | 158 | 623 |
4. „ Respiratory „ | 336 | 222 | 96 | 353 | 1,007 |
5. ,, Digestive „ | 74 | 73 | 80 | 104 | 331 |
6. ,, Lymphatic ,, | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
7. ,, Urinary „ | 45 | 44 | 27 | 40 | 156 |
8. ,, Reproductive ,, | 9 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 27 |
9. ,, Bones and Joints | .. | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
10. „ Integumentary System | .. | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
VII. Violence | 47 | 43 | 48 | 37 | 175 |
1. Accident or Negligence | 42 | 34 | 38 | 26 | 140 |
2. Homicide | 1 | 1 | 3 | .. | 5 |
3. Suicide | 4 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 30 |
4. Execution | |||||
VIII. Ill-defined Causes | 33 | 38 | 42 | 32 | 145 |
All Causes | 1,316 | 1,178 | 1,076 | 1,389 | 4,955 |
Note.—The heavy figures denote that the diseases to which they are applied were most fatal in the
Quarter to which they refer.
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