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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 Pancras 1884

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: Table N O. III.PARISH OF SAINT PANCRAS.Deaths Registered at several groups of Ages from different causes during the Year 1884.

Table N O. III.

PARISH OF SAINT PANCRAS.

Deaths Registered at several groups of Ages from different causes during the Year 1884.

CAUSE OF DEATH.AGES.
0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 and upwardsTotal under 5 yearsTotal
CLASSES.
1. Zymotic Diseases29128861424133241814918798 19
2. Parasitic Diseases11—2————————1113
3. Dietic Diseases4——588—2——427
4. Constitutional Diseases1621303286165177125914611—2921046
5. Developmental Diseases1581—————36013548139407
6. Local Diseases3552826876108182219290308164236372044
7. Deaths from Violence516147101012997287148
8. Ill defined192215239101723121213297
Total12247282022123323953984274643387519524795
Class I.—Zymotic Diseases. Order 1.—Miasmatic.
1Smallpox.Vaccinated......17661...1.........22
2Unvaccinated3343412......1...621
3No Statement2223522............418
4 Measles16666......1...............8289
5 Scarlet Fever32118...2..................2444
6 Typhus.....................1............1
7 Whooping Cough721228.....................194202
8 Diphtheria3298112...i.........3245
9 Simple Continued Fever.......................................
10 Enteric or Typhoid Fever...310188861"i......355
11 Chicken Pox...2...........................22
Order 2.—Diarrhæl.
1 Simple Cholera2...11...1...v...1...26
2 Diarrhoea, Dysentery159363...1242661195221
Order 3.—Malarial.
1 Remittent Fever...1...........................11
2 Ague....................................
Order 4.—Zoogenous.
1 Cowpox and Vaccination.......................................
2 Other Diseases {e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders).......................................
Order 5.—Venereal.
1 Syphilis28............111.........2831
2 Gonorrhoea, Stricture...............1..................1
Order 6—Septic.
1 Erysipelas32...222475......527
2 Pyaemia, Septicæmia...1...315421......1IV
3 Puerperal Fever.........4111..................16
Class II.—Parasitic Diseases.
1 Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases11...1........................1112
2 Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasites......1...........................1
Class III.—Dietic Diseases.
1 Want of Breast Milk, Starvation4...............1............45
2 Scurvy.......................................
3 Chronic Alcoholism............566...1.........18
4 Delirium Tremens...............21...1......4
Class IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
1 Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart......1...112...............5
2 Rheumatism.........1...13...12......8
3 Gout...............22......1......5
4 Rickets341........................78
5 Cancer, Malignant Disease...1...16184349286...1152
6 Tabes Mesenterica512611...1......1......7781
7 Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus577323......2...11......130157
8 Phthisis18142179155149733891...32557
9 Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula33121......2...............4548
10 Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis......211...1...11......7
Ill Anasmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia..........1............1.........2
12 Diabetes......2221132.........13
13 Other Constitutional Diseases........................2.........2
Class V.—Developmental Diseases.
1 Premature Birth1311...........................132132
2 Atelectasis12..............................1212
3 Congenital Malformations15..............................1515
4 Old Age.....................56013548...248