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St Pancras 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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[ SCHEDULE B. ]
Deaths Registered in Saint Pancras during March, 1857.
| Causes of Death. | At all Ages. | Under 20 years of age. | At 20 and under 40 years of age. | At 40 and under 60 years of age. | At 60 and under 80 years of age. | At 80 years of age and upwards. | Causes of Death. | At all Ages. | Under 20 years of age. | At 20 and under 40 years of age. | At 40 and under 60 years of age. | At 60 and under 80 years of age. | At 80 years of age and upwards. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I, Zymotic : | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | I | 2 | ||||||||||
| Small Pox | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 12 | 12 | Ulceration of Intestines Hernia (Rupture) ...... | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | |||||||
| Scarlatina | 9 | 9 | |||||||||||
| Hooping Cough | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Croup | 2 | 2 | Hens | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 4 | 2 | Stricture of Intestinal Canal | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Scurvy and Purpura | 1 | 1 | Inflammation of Liver (Hepatitis) | ||||||||||
| Ague | |||||||||||||
| Remittent Fever | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 1 | i | Disease of Liver | |||||||||||
| 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Puerperal Fever (Metria) | 8 | 2 | VIII. Kidney, &c.; | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Stricture of Urethra Disease of Bladder, &c. | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Abscess | 2 | 1 | 1 | IX. Childbirth : | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 4 | Childbirth (see Metria) Disease of Uterns, &c. | |||||||||||
| III. Tubercular; | X. Joints, Bones, &c. : | ||||||||||||
| 2 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Phthisis (Consumption) Hydrocephalus | 45 | 6 | 21 | 18 | Disease of Joints, &c | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | XI. Skin, Cellular Tissue; | |||||||||||
| IV. Brain and Nerves: | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 9 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Delirium Tremens | XII. Malformations: | ||||||||||||
| Chorea | |||||||||||||
| Epilepsy | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tetanus | |||||||||||||
| Insanity | 13 | 13 | Other Malformations | ||||||||||
| Disease of Brain, &c | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | XIII. Premature Birth and Debility | 10 | 10 | ||||||
| V. Heart and Blood Vessels; | XIV. Atrophy | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||
| XV. Old Age | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | XVII. Violent Death: | |||||||||||
| Disease of Heart, &c | 19 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 2 | ||||||||
| VI. Lungs and Organs op Respiration: | Intemperance | ||||||||||||
| Privation of Food | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Bronchitis | 51 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 20 | 3 | Cold | ||||||
| 2 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Disease of Lungs | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Suffocation | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| VII. Stomach and Di- gestive Organs; | Fractures & Contusions | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Causes not Specified | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Quinsev | |||||||||||||
| 1 | •• | 1 | |||||||||||
| Chloroform | |||||||||||||
| 351 | 173 | 39 | 53 | 6 | 17 |