Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fifty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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1909]
Table XXII.
Classified Causes of Death. | Quarters. | Year. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st. | 2nd. | 3rd. | 4th. | ||
I. Specific or Febrile Causes | 208 | 187 | 80 | 73 | 548 |
1. Miasmatic Diseases | 183 | 167 | 28 | 48 | 426 |
2. Diarrhceal ,, | 8 | 6 | 41 | 12 | 67 |
3. Malarial ,, | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
4. Zoogenous ,, | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
5. Venereal ,, | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 15 |
6. Septic „ | 15 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 40 |
II. Parasitic Diseases | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
III. Dietic | 5 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 27 |
IV. Constitutional Diseases | 279 | 232 | 239 | 282 | 1,032 |
V. Developmental | 138 | 93 | 79 | 101 | 411 |
VI. Local | 957 | 523 | 418 | 666 | 2,564 |
1. Diseases of Nervous System | 94 | 71 | 68 | 64 | 297 |
2. ,, Organs of Special Sense | .. | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
3. ,, Circulatory System | 216 | 152 | 132 | 161 | 661 |
4. ,, Respiratory „ | 519 | 185 | 103 | 280 | 1,087 |
5. Digestive ,, | 67 | 60 | 69 | 86 | 282 |
6. „ Lymphatic „ | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 |
7. Urinary „ | 49 | 35 | 32 | 58 | 174 |
8. ., Reproductive „ | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 20 |
9. ,, Bones and Joints | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
10. ,, Integumentary System | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
VII Violence | 57 | 50 | 34 | 52 | 193 |
1. Accident or Negligence | 42 | 39 | 26 | 40 | 147 |
2 Homicide | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | |
3. Suicide | 14 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 42 |
4. Execution | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
VIII. Ill-defined Causes | 32 | 42 | 46 | 22 | 142 |
All Causes | 1,676 | 1,136 | 903 | 1,203 | 4,918 |
Note—The heavy figures denote that the diseases to which they are applied were most fatal in the
Quarter to which they refer.