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 Stoke Newington, The Parish of St. Mary]
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TABLE A 2.
Showing the Causes of Death among Parishioners in Stoke Newjngton during each of the four quarters of the year 1897.
Causes of Death. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | Totals. | 1896 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scarlet Fever | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 7 |
Diphtheria | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 18 |
Membranous Croup | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Typhoid Fever | .. | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 5 |
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 |
Measles | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 |
Whooping Cough | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 16 |
Diarrhoea and Dysentery | .. | 1 | 18 | .. | 19 | 24 |
Rheumatic Fever | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
Erysipelas | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Influenza | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | 4 | 4 |
Phthisis (Consumption) | 9 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 39 | 20 |
Other Tubercular Diseases | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 15 |
Diseases of Respiratory Organs other than Phthsis | 18 | 17 | 9 | 18 | 62 | 62 |
Diseases of Circulatory Organs | 14 | 15 | 10 | 16 | 55 | 45 |
Diseases of Digestive Organs . | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 24 | 20 |
Diseases of Urinary Organs . | 4 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 17 | 18 |
Diseases of Reproductive Organs | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Diseases of Nervous System (including Apoplexy and Convulsions) | 11 | 10 | 17 | 15 | 53 | 40 |
Cancer | 4 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 28 | 20 |
Rheumatism | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Premature Birth | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 25 |
Senility | 7 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 31 | 23 |
Wasting and Debility and Developmental Defects | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 20 | 21 |
Accidents (including Overlying) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 9 |
Suicides | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | 3 |
Pyaemia and Septicaemia (Blood-poisoning) | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | 2 |
Syphilis | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Alcoholism | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Gout | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. |
Totals | 98 | 109 | 133 | 133 | 473 | 418 |