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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—E ST. PANCRAS PARISH.
Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year
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 8586& upwardsTotalsUnder 5 years
I.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic
Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Smallpox.Vaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles11659l.....................8076
Scarlet Fever215101.....................2817
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough47582......1...............108105
Diphtheria6312911..................7140
Simple Continued & Ill·defined Fever...2...........................22
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...1796222.........291
Other Miasmatic Diseases (Chicken· pox)...21........................32
2.—Diarrheal Diseases........................................
Simple Cholera1.................................11
Diarrhcca, Dysentery143102...1132741174153
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever...1...1.....................21
Ague.......................................
4.—Zooqenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination.......................................
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia,.......................................
Glanders, Splenic Fever)......1........................1...
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis233......111............296
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas5.........112...2......115
Pyaamia, Septicaemia4......421411......174
Puerperal Fever.........114...............6...
11.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases5..............................55
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases......1........................1...
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation121...........................1313
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism............3993.........24...
Delirium Tremens............311............5...
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart...16743311......261
Rheumatism......1.........242......9...
Gout...............131117...
Rickets98........................1717
Cancer, Malignant Disease12...172236494514...1873
Tabes Mesenterica481662.....................7264
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus1733161"i6850
Phthisis641165841278146111...46410
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula211194653...2......6132
Purpura, Hemorrhagic Diathesis..................11.........2...
Aiuemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythaimia2......3...1.........1...72
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus...l1123...211...121
Other Constitutional Diseases.......................................