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Plumstead 1897
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health, 1897
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(A ) TABLE III.
Table of DEATHS during the year 1897, 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 shewn as separate localities. | Mortality from all causes, at subjoined ages. | Mortality from subjoined caubes, distinguishing Deaths of Childj:en under Fivf. Years of Agk. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ii | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | ||
| Small Pox | Scarlatina | Diphtheria | Mem bran- ous Croup | fevers. | Cholera | | Erysipelas j | Measles | Whooping Cough | Diarrhoea & Dysentery | | Rheumatic Fever | Phthisis | Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy | Heart Disease | Cancer | Injuries | All other Diseases | Total | |||||||||||||
| Typhus | Enteric or Typhoid | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WEST PLUMSTEAD | 195 | 45 | 19 | 5 | 12 | 69 | 45 | Under 5 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 16 | 1 | 24 | 64 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 22 | 18 | 10 | 1 | 52 | 131 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| EAST PLUMSTEAD | 497 | 177 | 61 | 21 | 17 | 149 | 72 | Under 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 59 | 2 | 40 | 113 | 238 | |||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 51 | 36 | 38 | 17 | 10 | 95 | 259 | |||||||||||||||||
| WORKHOUSE AND INFIRMARY | 203 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 97 | 87 | Under 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 1 | 4 | 1 | 36 | 30 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 67 | 191 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Totals | 895 | 230 | 84 | 28 | 34 | 315 | 204 | Under 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 76 | 2 | 58 | 3 | 143 | 314 | ||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 111 | 88 | 74 | 45 | 27 | 214 | 581 | |||||||||||||||
| 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 | 78 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 8 | 36 | 8 | Under 5 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 21 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 27 | 57 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto | 129 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 63 | 56 | Under 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 1 | 3 | 21 | 19 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 41 | 123 | |||||||||||||||||||||