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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-D. ST. PANCRAS PARISH.
Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 4th Quarter of 1887.

Table: Note.—t'r.o 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 Ihe District are included.

Note.—t'r.o 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 Ihe District are included.

AGES.
0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 65r- 00 to 7575 to t535 and upwardsTotalsunder 5 years
1.—Specific Febrile, ok Zymotic
Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Smallpox.T Vaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles6254........................3531
Scarlet Fever120101.....................3221
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough5171........................2322
Diphtheria2144...11.........1...2316
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever.......................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...1l423...............111
Other Miasmatic Diseases.......................................
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera.......................................
Diarrhœa, Dysentery12...........................99
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever.......................................
Ague.......................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination.......................................
Other Diseases (e gHydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).......................................
5.— Venereal Diseases•
Syphilis4..............................44
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas2...1......1443......152
Pyæmia, Septicæmia1.........1..................21
Puerperal Fever.........13..................4...
11.—Parasitic Diseases,
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases1..............................11
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases11
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation1..............................11
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism............2...1...1......4...
Delirium Tremens.........1.........1.........2...
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatio Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart......3............1.........4...
Rheumatism........................1......1...
Gout........................11...2...
Rickets...3...........................33
Cancer, Malignant Disease............281514111152...
Tabes Mesenterica53...........................88
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus6101...............1......1816
Phthisis...33112440211341...1203
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula7432111............1911
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis.......................................
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia2...1........................32
Glycosuria. Diabetes Mellitus...............111.........3...
Other Constitutional Diseases.......................................
V.—Developmental Diseases.
Premature Birth35..............................3535
Atelectasis3..............................33
Congenital Malformations5..............................55
Old Age.....................215241455...
VI.—Local Diseases.
1.—Nervous System.
Inflammation of Brain or Membranes684l1...1............2114
Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis...............78121710256...
Insanity, Genl. Paralysis of the Insane............332422...16...
Epilepsy......2...131...1......8...
Convulsions2311........................2524
Laryngismus Stridulus (Spasm of Glottis)1..............................11
Diseases of Spinal Cord, Paraplegia, Paralysis Agitans..................1...11...3...
Other Disease of Nervous System11...11...41
2.— Organs of Spicial Sense
(e.g., cf Ear, Eye, Nose).....................1.........1...