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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 1899

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

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Table: TABLE 3.Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Deaths and the Ages.

TABLE 3.

Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Deaths and the Ages.

AGESTotal.
Under 3 months3 months to 1 year1 to 22 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 to 9595 and Upwards
I. Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases381271201134110201810121931...532
II. Parasitic Diseases...................................................
III. Dietetic Diseases..................2665............19
IV. Constitutional Diseases12532/152147/31011006654161...580
V. Developmental Diseases23.....................234721...199
VI. Local Diseases102198916638496210614820020210220...1384
VII. Deaths from Violence20122116316128365......104
VIII. Deaths from III-Defined and Not Specified Causes8542125.....................1......145
Totals36043425521010610917324327228630417443...2969
I.—SPECIFIC FEBRILE, OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES. 1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small PoxVaccinated
Unvaccinated.............................................
No Statement.............................................
Measles21738273...........................87
Scarlet Fever......376...........................13
Typhus.............................................
Whooping Cough10344218..............................104
Diphtheria17144833............1............104
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever..............................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever.........2...510321............23
Other Miasmatic Diseases.............................................
2.—Diarrboeal Diseases..............................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery1863218.........212711...124
3. - Malarial Diseases.................................................
Ague.............................................
Influenza...1...121...576102......40
4.—Zoogenous Diseases. Cowpox and effects of Vaccination.............................................
Other Diseases (e.g. Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever)1.......................................1
5.—Venereal Diseases. Syphilis442.........2.....................12
Gronorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra.............................................
6.—Septic Diseases. Erysipelas.....................2...11.........4
Pyæmia, Septicaemia21...2...112...11.........11
Puerperal Fever.....................4..................9
II.-PARASITIC DISEASES. Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasiti Diseases.............................................
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.............................................
Ill —DIETETIC DISEASES. Want of Breast Milk, Starvation1.......................................1
Scurvy.............................................
Chronic Alcoholism..................26651.........19
Delirium Tremens.............................................
IV.-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart...............35112............12
Rheumatism............1.........21............5
Gout........................1......1......2
Rickets...841...........................13
Cancer, Malignant Diseases......1......1310283233111...120
Tabes Mesenterica9255.................................39
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus...7694......111............29