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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

St Luke 1899

Report on the sanitary condition, vital statistics, &c., of the Parish of St. Luke, Middlesex for the year 1899

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Table: TABLE III.—continued.

TABLE III.—continued.

causes of death.ages.Total under 5 years of age.Grand Total all Ages.
0 to 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 2525 to 65.65 and upwards.
III. Dietic Diseases. Want of Breast Milk, Starvation1.........1...12
Scurvy........................
Chronic Alcoholism............6......6
Delirium Tremens............2......2
1.........9...110
IV. Constitutional Diseases. Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart............2......2
Rheumatism............22...4
Gout............1......1
Rickets12............33
Cancer, Malignant Disease...1......178126
Tabes Mesenterica41......1...56
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus222.........46
Phthisis4581511139141
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula564...3...1118
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis........................
Anaemia, Chlorosis, Leucocytbæmia............3......3
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus............1......1
Other Constitutional Diseases........................
16179151411333211