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Plumstead 1896
Third annual report 1896-7
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( A) TABLE III.
Table of DEATHS during the year 1896, in the Plumstead Sanitary Area, London District, classified according to
Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
| Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. | Mortality from all causes, at subjoined ages. | Mortality from subjoined causes, Distinguishing DEATHS of children under five years of AGE. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages | Under 1 year | 1 & under 5 | 5 & under 15 | 15 & under 25 | 25 & under 65 | 65 & upwards | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10: | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | ||
| Small Pox | Scarlatina | Diphtheria | Membranous Croup | fevers. | Cholera | Erysipelas | Measles | Whooping Cough | Diarrhoea & Dysentery | Rheumatic Fever | Phthisis | Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy | Heart Disease | Injuries | All Other Diseases | Total | |||||||||||||
| Typhus | Enteric or Typhoid | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (C) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | (i) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WEST PLUMSTEAD | 214 | 48 | 30 | 8 | 1C | 58 | 60 | Under 5 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 32 | 78 |
| 5 upwds | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | I | 17 | 23 | 27 | 4 | 59 | 136 | ||||||||
| EAST PLUMSTEAD | 589 | 208 | 122 | 31 | 19 | 128 | 81 | Under 5 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 50 | 25 | 28 | 0 | 5 | 50 | 1 | 8 | 137 | 330 |
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 41 | 38 | 34 | 13 | 111 | 259 | ||||||||
| WORKHOUSE & INFIRMARY | 199 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 92 | 76 | Under 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .. | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 19 |
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 36 | 26 | 27 | 7 | 80 | 180 | ||||||||
| Totals | 1002 | 264 | 163 | 44 | 36 | 278 | 217 | Under 5 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 66 | 36 | 31 | 0 | 5 | 68 | 1 | 10 | 178 | 427 |
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 94 | 87 | 88 | 24 | 250 | 575 | ||||||||
| The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deaths occurring outside the district among persons belonging thereto. | 73 | 2 | 22 | 10 | 9 | 27 | 3 | Under 5 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 24 |
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 20 | 49 | ||||||||
| Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto. | 144 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 70 | 52 | Under 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | c | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 14 |
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 18 | 17 | 7 | 58 | 130 | ||||||||