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St Pancras 1889

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

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Table: Table No. 3—B ST. PANCRAS PARISH.Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 2nd Quarterof 1889. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Publio Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and tho Doaths of Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District arc included.

Table No. 3—B ST. PANCRAS PARISH.Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 2nd Quarterof 1889. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Publio Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and tho Doaths of Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District arc included.

AGES.
0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585& upwardsTotalsUnder 5 years.
I.—Specific Febrile, oh Zymotic Diseases.
Smallpox.1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
'Vaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinted.......................................
. No Statement.........•••...........................
Measles3243........................3027
Scarlet Fever...43........................74
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough1922...........................4141
Diphtheria...83........................118
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever.......................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...1134..................91
Other Miasmatic Diseases (ChickcnPox)...11........................21
2.—Diarrliceal Diseases.
Simple Cholera.......................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery12.....................11...1412
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever...1...........................11
Ague.......................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination.......................................
Other Diseases (e.g.. Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).......................................
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis72............1............109
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas2.....................1......32
Pyemia, Septicaemia1......11...21.........61
Puerperal Fever...............1...............1...
II.—Parasitic Diseases,...
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases2..............................22
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.......................................
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation1..............................11
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism...............1121......5...
Delirium Tremens.......................................
iv.—constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart...111...1111......71
Rheumatism.....................2.........3...
Gout..................111......3...
Rickets...2..................•••......22
Cancer, Malignant Disease............1710913......45...
Tabes Mesenterica942........................1513
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus283.........1............1410
Phthisis21315262920134......1143
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula331111..................6
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis.................................1...
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia.........1.....................2...
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus.........1...........................
Other Constitutional Diseases.......................................