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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-G. Kentish 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-G. Kentish 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...............1...............1...
No Statement.......................................
Measles1022...1.....................3332
Scarlet Feverl5111..................96
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough15201........................3635
Diphtheria26101.....................198
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever.......................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......2121...1.........7...
Other Miasmatic Diseases.......................................
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera...1...........................11
Diarrhœa, Dysentery7011.........1.........2...8481
8.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever.......................................
Ague............1..................1...
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination.......................................
Other Diseases (e.g.. Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever)...1...........................11
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis7.........1..................87
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra...........................1...1...
6—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas1..................21......41
Pyemia, Septicæmia............1...1............2...
Puerperal Fever.........2...............2...
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases41...........................55
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases....................................
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation7..............................7...
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism...............1......1......2...
Delirium Tremors........................1......1...
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart.........121...1.........5...
Rheumatism......1..................1...2...
Gout..................1311...6...
Rickets...4...........................44
Cancer, Malignant Disease...............79994240...
Tabes Mesenterica13101...2..................2623
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus932........................1412
Phthisis145193924231121...1295
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula441...11...1.........128
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis2..............................22
Anemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia.............11...1.........3...
Glycosuria. Diabetes Mellitus......11112......2...8...
Other Constitutional Diseases.......................................
V.—Developmental Diseases.
Premature Birth31...............................3131
Atelectasis4..............................44
Congenital Malformations21...........................33
Old Age.....................111291354...
VI.—Local Diseases.
1. Nervous System. — Inflammation of Brain or Membranes14243...111............4438
Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis............141011228157...