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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-D. ST. PANCRA.S PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 4th 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 Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

Table No. 3-D. ST. PANCRA.S PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 4th 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 Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

AGES.
0 to 1l to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585& upwardsTotalsUnder 5 years
I.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Smallpox.Vaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles239810........................131121
Scarlet Fever...112........................1311
Typhus.......................................
"Whooping Cough441........................98
Diphtheria...146........................2014
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever........................1......1...
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......432112.........13...
Other Miasmatic Diseases1..............................11
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera.......................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery84.........1121......1712
3.—Mala/rial Diseases.
Remittent Fever.......................................
Ague.......................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination.......................................
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).......................................
5.—Venereal Diseases........................................
Syphilis5..............................55
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas...111............1......41
Pyaemia, Septicæmia......2........................2...
Puerperal Fever.........22..................4...
II.—Parasitic Diseases, Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases1..............................11
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.......................................
III.—Dietic Diseases.
"Want of Breast Milk, Starvation1..............................11
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism............11...21......5...
Delirium Tremens.......................................
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart............11...............2...
Rheumatism..................1...1......2...
Gout.....................1.........1...
Rickets14...........................55
Cancer, Malignant Disease............22121263...37...
Tabes Mesenterica85...........................1313
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus424........................106
Phthisis.........16293018121...106...
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula153...1...1............116
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis.................................2...
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia.........11........................
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus.........1...112.........5...
Other Constitutional Diseases.......................................