Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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1913]
Table XXI.
Classified Causes of Death. | Quarters. | Year. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | 2nd. | 3rd. | 4th. | ||
I. Specific or Febrile Causes | 129 | 85 | 85 | 448 | |
1. Miasmatic Diseases | 113 | 25 | 31 | 284 | |
2. Diarrhœal „ | 5 | 5 | 40 | 99 | |
3. Malarial „ | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
4. Zoogenous „ | 1 | .. | .. | 4 | |
5. Venereal „ | 5 | 1 | 5 | 19 | |
6. Septic „ | 3 | 10 | 9 | 42 | |
II. Parasitic Diseases | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
III. Dietic | .. | 4 | 5 | 17 | |
IV. Constitutional Diseases | 248 | 235 | 251 | 1,032 | |
V. Developmental | 119 | 101 | 118 | 468 | |
VI. Local | 623 | 476 | 750 | 2,718 | |
1. Diseases of Nervous System | 89 | 87 | 89 | 376 | |
2 „ Organs of Special Sense | 6 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 20 |
3. „ Circulatory System | 163 | 128 | 202 | 733 | |
4. „ Respiratory | 209 | 98 | 248 | 958 | |
5. „ Digestive „ | 69 | 84 | 101 | 362 | |
6. „ Lymphatic „ | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | |
7. „ Urinary „ | 50 | 39 | 61 | 213 | |
8. „ Reproductive „ | 3 | 7 | 26 | ||
9. „ Bones and Joints | . . | 4 | .. | 2 | 6 |
10. „ Integumentary System | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | |
VII. Violence | 51 | 46 | 42 | 195 | |
1. Accident or Negligence | 43 | 34 | 35 | 157 | |
2 Homicide | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 |
3. Suicide | 6 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 34 |
4. Execution | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
VIII. Ill-defined Causes | 48 | 40 | 29 | 32 | 149 |
All Causes | 1,495 | 1,207 | 993 | 1,333 | 5,028 |
Note—The heavy figures denote that the diseases to which they are applied were most fatal in the
Quarter to which they refer.