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St Pancras 1888

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

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Table: Table No. 3-A. ST. PANCRAS PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 1st Quarter of 1888. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths of Residents occurring in Publio Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

Table No. 3-A. ST. PANCRAS PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 1st Quarter of 1888. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths of Residents occurring in Publio Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

AGES.
0 to 10 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 & upwardsTotalsUnder 5 years
1.—Specific Febrile, ok Zymotic Diseases. 1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Smallpox.Vaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles31311.....................1816
Scarlet Fever14102.....................175
Typhus....................................
Whooping Cough14461........................6160
Diphtheria1761.....................158
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever....................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...17514...11......201
Other Miasmatic Diseases...1...........................11
2.—Diarrhæal Diseases.
Simple Cholera.......................................
Diarrhæa, Dysentery1.....................11...31
8.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever.......................................
Ague.......................................
4—Zoogenous Diseases....
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination.......................................
Other Diseases (e.g.. Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).......................................
5.—Venereal Disease.s
Syphilis8..............................88
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas2............1...3.........62
Pyæmia, Septicæmia...............11............2...
Puerperal Fever.........21..................3...
11.—Parasitic Diseases,
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases1..............................11
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.......................................
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation.......................................
Scurvy............1..................1...
Chronic Alcoholism............222............6...
Delirium Tremens.......................................
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart......11...311.........7...
Rheumatism.....................112...4...
Gout..................11......13...
Rickets22...........................44
Cancer, Malignant Disease......1...34512111...37...
Tabes Mesenterica847........................1912
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus582........................1513
Phthisis...358284513114......1173
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula5522.....................1410
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis.......................................
Apæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia.......................................
Glycosuria. Diabetes Mellitus...............1...............1...
Other Constitutional Diseases.........2.....................2...