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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·D ST. PANCRAS PARISH.
Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 4th 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 are 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 are 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, or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Smallpox.Vaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles2183........................2320
Scarlet Fever143........................85
Typhus....................................
Whooping Cough11151........................2726
Diphtheria313131.....................3016
Simple Continued & III·defined Fever...1...........................11
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......4411...............10...
Other Miasmatic Diseases (Chicken· pox).......................................
2.—DiarrhoeaL Diseases.
Simple Cholera.......................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery124......1...11.........1916
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever.......................................
Ague.......................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination......................................
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).......................................
5.—Venereal Diseases'
Syphilis3..............................33
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6.—Sevtic Diseases.
Erysipelas1.........112............51
Pyjemia, Septictemia2......11...1............52
Puerperal Fever...............1...............1...
II.—Parasitic Diseases,
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases.......................................
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.......................................
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation4..............................44
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism...............212.........5...
Delirium Tremens............11...............2...
IV.—Constitutional Diseases. Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the
Heart......1231...............7...
Rheumatism.................................
Gout..................1.........12...
Rickets11...........................22
Cancer, Malignant Disease1.........231114106...471
Tabes Mesenterica11511.....................1815
Tubercular meningitis, Hydrocephalcs464........................1410
Phthisis2...523313727113......1392
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula323...3...2...2......155
Purpura, Hemorrhagic Diathesis....................................•••
Anajmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythaemia1......1...............1...41
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus.......................................
Other Constitutional Diseases....................................