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St Pancras 1886

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

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Table: Table No.3-E. Somers Town Sub.District.Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1886. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths of Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

Table No.3-E. Somers Town Sub.District.Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1886. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths of Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

AGES.
0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 and upwardsTotalsunder 5 years
I.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small-pox.Vaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles5201........................2625
Scarlet Fever...4...........................44
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough9132........................2422
Diphtheria152........................86
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever...1...........................11
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...1ll3l...............71
Other Miasmatic Diseases.......................................
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera.......................................
Diarrhœa, Dysentery3281...1......112...4640
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever.......................................
Ague.......................................
4 —Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination.......................................
Other Diseases (e g„ Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).......................................
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis31...1......1............64
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6 —Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas1...2......11............51
Pyaemia, Septicaemia......1............1.........2...
Puerperal Fever............4..................4...
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases.......................................
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.......................................
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation2..............................22
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism...............331.........7...
Delirium Tremers............1..................1...
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rhcumatism of the Heart...............11............2...
Rheumatism.....................1.........1...
Gout.......................................
Rickets33...........................66
Cancer, Malignant Disease.........1...26842...23...
Tabes Mesenterica1311........................1514
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus4111........................1615
Phthisis123121821961......733
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula34...2......1............107
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis.......................................
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythœmia.........1.........1.........2...
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus.........1...1...1.........3...
Other Constitutional Disease........................................
V.—Developmental Diseases.
Premature Birth25..............................2525
Atelectasis1..............................11
Congenital Malformations31...........................44
Old Age........................1328849...
VI —Local Diseases.
1. Nervous System. — Inflammation of Brain or Membranes341...11...............107
Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis............1138134131...