Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Forty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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Table XXVI.
Classified Causes of Death. | Quarters. | Year. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st. | 2nd. | 3rd. | 4th. | ||
I. Specific or Febrile Causes | 190 | 171 | 371 | 215 | 947 |
1. Miasmatic Diseases „ | 183 | 154 | 126 | 182 | 645 |
2. Diarrhœal „ | 1 | 7 | 236 | 14 | 258 |
3. Malarial „ | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
4. Zoogenous „ | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
5. Venereal „ | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
6. Septic ,, | 3 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 35 |
II. Parasitic Diseases | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 3 |
III. Dietic „ | 7 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 32 |
IV. Constitutional Diseases | 272 | 273 | 288 | 282 | 1,115 |
V. Developmental „ | 205 | 138 | 131 | 172 | 646 |
VI. Local „ | 880 | 575 | 629 | 934 | 3,018 |
1. Diseases of Nervous System | 134 | 112 | 114 | 137 | 497 |
2. ,, Organs of Special Sense | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
3. „ Circulatory System | 139 | 114 | 104 | 161 | 518 |
4 „ Respiratory „ | 447 | 222 | 123 | 480 | 1,272 |
5. „ Digestive „ | 81 | 75 | 236 | 95 | 487 |
6. „ Lymphatic „ | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
7. „ Glandlike Organs of uncertain use | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 | 5 |
8. „ Urinary System | 48 | 30 | 31 | 37 | 146 |
9. „ Reproductive System | 7 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 35 |
10. „ Bones and Joints | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 17 |
11. „ Integumentary | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 26 |
VII. Violence | 50 | 60 | 49 | 70 | 229 |
1. Accident or Negligence | 40 | 48 | 37 | 58 | 183 |
2. Homicide | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
3. Suicide | 6 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 37 |
VIII. Ill-defined Causes | 76 | 53 | 93 | 81 | 303 |
All Causes | 1,681 | 1,281 | 1,572 | 1,759 | 6,293 |
Note.—The heavy figures denote that the diseases to which they are applied were most fatal in
the Quarter to which they refer.