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 St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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[ SCHEDULE B. ]
Deaths Registered in St. Pancras during Five Weeks ending Oct. 31st, 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 : | Enteritis | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Small pox | 2 | 1 | 1 | Peritonitis | 1 | .. | 1 | ||||||
| Measleas | 11 | 11 | Ascites | ||||||||||
| Scarlatina | 13 | 12 | 1 | Ulceration of Intestines | |||||||||
| Hooping cough | 19 | 19 | Hernia (Rupture) | I | .. | .. | 1 | ||||||
| Croup | 4 | 4 | Ileus | 1 | .. | .. | l | ||||||
| Thrush | Intussusception | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | ||||||||
| Diarrhoea | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | Stricture of Intestinal | ||||||||
| Dysentery | Canal | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Cholera | Disease of Stomach, &c. | ||||||||||||
| influnza | Disease of Pancreas | ||||||||||||
| Scurvy and Purpura | Inflammation of Liver (Hepatitis) | ||||||||||||
| Ague | Jaundice | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Remittent fever | Disease of Liver | 9 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | |||||||
| Typhus Fever | 14 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | Disease of Spleen | |||||||
| Puerperal Fever (Metria) | 2 | .. | 2 | ||||||||||
| Rheumatic fever | 1 | 1 | VIII. Kidney,&c. | ||||||||||
| Erysispelas | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | Nephritis | |||||||
| Syphilis | 2 | 1 | 1 | Nephria (Bright's Dis.) Ischuria | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||||
| Noma(canker) | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Hydrophobia | Diabetes | ||||||||||||
| Stone | |||||||||||||
| II. Dropsy, &c. : | Cystitis | ||||||||||||
| Haemorrhage | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | Stricture of Urethra | ||||||||
| Dropsy | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | Disease of Bladder, &c. | |||||||
| Abscess | 1 | .. | 1 | ||||||||||
| Ulcer | 1 | 1 | IX. Childbirth : | ||||||||||
| Fistula | Paramenia | ||||||||||||
| mortification | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | Ovarian Dropsy | ||||||
| Cancer | 7 | .. | 2 | 3 | 2 | Childbirth (see Metria) | |||||||
| Gout | Disease of Uterns, &c. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||||||
| III. Tubercular; | X. Joints, Bones, &c. : | ||||||||||||
| Scrofula | 1 | 1 | Rheumatism | ||||||||||
| Tabes Mesenterica | 2 | 2 | Arthitis | ||||||||||
| Phthisis (Consumption) | 39 | 2 | 23 | 12 | 2 | Disease of Joints, &c, | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | ||
| Hydrocephalus | 4 | 4 | |||||||||||
| IV. Brain and Nerves : | XI. Skin, Cellular Tissue ; | ||||||||||||
| cephalitis | 4 | 3 | .. | .. | 1 | carbuncle | |||||||
| Apoplexy | 11 | 2 | .. | 3 | 5 | 1 | Phlegmon | ||||||
| palsy(paralysis) | 5 | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | Disease of Skin, &c. | ||||||
| Delirium Tremens | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| chorea | XII. Malformations : | ||||||||||||
| Epilepsy | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tetanus | Cyanosis | ||||||||||||
| insanity | Spina | ||||||||||||
| Convulslion | 5 | 5 | Other Malformations | 1 | .. | 1 | |||||||
| Disease of Brain, &c. | 2 | 1 | •• | .. | 1 | XIII. Premature Birth | |||||||
| V. Heart and Blood Vessels ; | and Debility | 18 | 18 | ||||||||||
| XIV. Atrophy | 11 | 11 | |||||||||||
| XV. old age | 15 | .. | .. | .. | 7 | 8 | |||||||
| pericarditis | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | XVI. Sudden | ||||||||
| Aneurism | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||||||||
| Disease of Heart, &c. | 4 | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | XVII. Violent Death: | |||||||
| VI. Lungs and Organs | Intemperence | ||||||||||||
| Privation of Food | |||||||||||||
| Laryngitis | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | Want of Breast Milk | 1 | 1 | |||||
| bronchitis | 29 | 20 | .. | 2 | 7 | Cold | |||||||
| pleurisy | 1 | 1 | poison | ||||||||||
| pneumonia | 29 | 27 | 1 | .. | 1 | Burns and scalds | |||||||
| Asthma | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | Hanging | ||||||||
| Disease of lungs | Suffocation | ||||||||||||
| Drowning | |||||||||||||
| VII. Stomach and Di gestive organ | Fractures & Contusions wounds | ||||||||||||
| Teething | 8 | 8 | Other Violence. | ||||||||||
| Quinsey | Causes not Specified | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Gastritis | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 318 | 177 | 48 | 36 | 45 | 12 | |||||||