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St Pancras 1887

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

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Table No. 3-A. ST. PANCRAS PARISH.
Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 1st Quarter of 1887.

Table: 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.

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 8535 and upwardsTotalsunder 5 years
1.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Smallpox.Vaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles9203........................3229
Scarlet Fever193........................1310
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough13293........................4542
Diphtheria...85........................138
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever.......................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...1...321...............71
Other Miasmatic Diseases.......................................
2.—Diarrhceal Diseases.
Simple Cholera.......................................
Diarrhcea, Dysentery82...1...1............1210
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.
Syphilis11..............................1111
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra..................11.........2...
6—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas2.........2......1...1...62
Pyæemia, Septicemia1..................2.........31
Puerperal Fever.........21..................3...
11.—Parasitic Diseases,
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases.......................................
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.....................1.........1...
111.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation.......................................
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism............13322......11...
Delirium Tremens............1...1...1......3...
IV.-Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart......111...1...1......5...
Rheumatism......1.........1............2...
Gout........................12...3...
Rickets22...........................44
Cancer, Malignant Disease............261311102...44...
Tabes Mesenterica451........................109
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus633...1..................139
Phthisis523162131181031...1107
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula351...2...2............138
Purpura, Ha3morrhagic Diathesis...1...........................11
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia......11.........1.........3...
0 Gycsuria, Diabetes Mellitus...............1...1.........2...
Other Constitutional Diseases.......................................
V.—Developmental Diseases.
Premature Birth28..............................2828
Atelectasis1..............................11
Congenital Malformations1..............................11
Old Age........................26421886...
VI.—Local Diseases.
1.—Nervous System.2414
Inflammation of Brain or Membranes771221211......
Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis.........1......1314137452...
Insanity, Genl. Paralysis of the Insane............254232...18...
Epilepsy.........2...2.........1...5...
Convulsions1241........................1716
Laryngismus Stridulus (Spasm of Glottis)31...........................44
Diseases of Spinal Cord, Paraplegia. Paralysis Agitans........................2......3...
Other Disease of Nervous System.......................................
2.— Organs of Special Sense
(e.g., of Ear, Eye, Nose).......................................