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St Pancras 1889

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

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Table No. 3·C ST. PANCRAS PARISH.
Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 3rd Quarter
of 1889.

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 arc 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 arc included.

AGES.
0 to 1l to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to G565 to 7575 to 8585 & upwardsTotalsUnder 5 years
I.—Specific Febrile, ok zymotic Diseases.
Smallpox.1.—Miasmatic Diseases. Vaccinated......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles37...........................1010
Scarlet Fever153........................96
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough1191......1...............2220
Diphtherial81...1..................119
Simple Continued & III·defined Fever......121111.........7...
Enteric or Typhoid Fever.......................................
Other Miasmatic Diseases (Chicken· Pox)...1...........................11
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases. Simple Choleral..............................11
Diarrhoea, Dysentery107141......121521134121
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever.........1.....................1...
Ague.......................................
4.—Zooqenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination.......................................
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).......................................
5.—Venereal Diseases........................................
Syphilis81...........................99
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
G.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas2..................1.........32
Pytemia, Septicasmia1......1......1...1......51
Puerneral Fever............1..................1...
11—Parasitic Diseases,
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases1..............................11
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.......................................
III.—Dietic Diseases. Want of Breast Milk, Starvation61........................77
Scurvy....................................
Chronic Alcoholism............135.........9...
Delirium Tremens............2...1.........3...
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart......111...11.........5...
Rheumatism........................2......2...
Gout.................................1...
Rickets54...........................99
Cancer, Malignant Disease...1......27811131...431
Tabes Mesenterica19611.....................2725
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus586...1..................2013
Phthisis...1...16223214113......991
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula103'22221............2213
Purpura, Ha)morrhagic Diathesis..................1............1...
Anajmia, Chlorosis, Leucocytha3mia.........1.....................1...
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus...............1......1......3...
Other Constitutional Diseases........................ ..................