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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Newington 1898

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Parish of St. Mary, Newington, London

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Table: Table 3.Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1898.

Table 3.

Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1898.

AGES.
Under 3 months3 months to 1 year1 to 22 to 65 to 1615 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 to 9595 and Upward.Total.
I. Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases481207326111035961042...327
II. Parasitic Diseases.............................................
III. Dietetic Diseases1...............15131.........12
IV. Constitutional Diseases1029231814374345503214.........315
V. Developmental Diseases833.....................2162615...145
721368947231932608910482...5...
VII. Deaths from Violence2411111231242...1...53
VIII. Deaths from Ill-Defined and Not Specified Causes754712.................................134
Totals313340198924968821161511511258623...1800
I.—SPECIFIC FEBRILE, OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small PoxVaccinated
Unvaccinated.............................................
No Statement.............................................
Measles2928122.........53
Scarlet Fever......1211...........................5
Typhus..........................................
Whooping Cough114174...........................36
Diphtheria...3363...........................15
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever..........................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever.........112........................4
Other Miasmatic Diseases....................................
2.-Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera.............................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery408924...1...3...11411...165
3.-Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever.............................................
Ague1...1
Influenza11...133...28563......33
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and effects of Vaccination.............................................
Other Diseases {e.g. Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).............................................
5.—Venereal Diseases.22.......................................
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra.............................................
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas21...............1..................4
Pyæsemia, Septicæmia...1...................................1
Puerperal Fever...............4...2..................6
II.—PARASITIC DISEASES
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases.............................................
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.............................................
III.—DIETETIC DISEASES.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation1.......................................1
Scurvy.............................................
Chronic Alcoholism..................15...31........11
Delirium Tremens............................................
IV.—CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart.........1...21...2...............6
Rheumatism...........111...2...............6
Gout..........................2............2
Rickets......4.................................4
Cancer, Malignant Diseases.........1......368...13........43
Tabes Mesenterica914631...1....................34
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus161075...11................31