Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fifty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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1906]
Table XXIII.
Classified Causes of Death. | Quarters. | Year. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st. | 2nd. | 3rd. | 4th. | ||
I. Specific or Febrile Causes.. | 176 | 160 | 237 | 126 | 699 |
1. Miasmatic Diseases | 150 | 138 | 54 | 78 | 420 |
2. Diarrhœal ,, | 9 | 10 | 167 | 27 | 213 |
S. Malarial ,, | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
4. Zoogenous „ | 3 | .. | .. | 2 | 5 |
5. Venereal ,, | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 16 |
6. Septic „ | 12 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 45 |
II. Parasitic Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
III. Dietic | 6 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 22 |
IV. Constitutional Diseases | 271 | 237 | 244 | 290 | 1,042 |
V. Developmental | 110 | 86 | 97 | 108 | 401 |
VI. Local | 731 | 583 | 486 | 724 | 2,524 |
1. Diseases of Nervous System | 89 | 75 | 88 | 91 | 343 |
2. „ Organs of Special Sense | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
3. ,, Circulatory System | 176 | 169 | 166 | 185 | 696 |
4. „ Respiratory „ | 328 | 216 | 83 | 287 | 914 |
5. ,, Digestive „ | 77 | 72 | 107 | 91 | 347 |
6. ,, Lymphatic „ | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
7. ,, Urinary ,, | 40 | 36 | 32 | 49 | 157 |
8. „ Reproductive „ | 7 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 32 |
9. ,, Bones and Joints | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
10. ,, Integumentary System | 2 | 2 | .. | 3 | 7 |
VII. Violence | 37 | 48 | 54 | 56 | 215 |
1. Accident or Negligence | 48 | 35 | 42 | 43 | 168 |
2. Homicide | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
3. Suicide | 8 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 41 |
4. Execution | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
VIII. Ill-defined Causes | 40 | 34 | 40 | 33 | 147 |
All Causes | 1,391 | 1,151 | 1,163 | 1,345 | 5,050 |
Note.—The heavy figures denote that the diseases to which they are applied were most fatal in the
Quarter to which they refer.