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St Pancras 1890

[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 Quarter of 1890. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Publio 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—B. ST. PANCRAS PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 2nd Quarter of 1890. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Publio 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 & upwards ITotalsUnder 5 years
I.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases. 1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Smallpox.Vaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles82061.....................3528
Scarlet Fever...41........................54
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough1324...........................3737
Diphtheria2139...1..................2515
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever.......................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever.........111...1.........4...
Other Miasmatic Diseases (Chicken-px) _1.....................1......21
2.—Diarrhceal Diseases.
Simple Cholera....................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery10...............11.........1210
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
Syphilis62......1...1............103
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas3............1...............43
Pyasmia, Scpticsemia1......11..................31
Puerperal Fever.........2...2...............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, Starvation.......................................
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism............352211...14...
Delirium Tremens............2..................2...
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fover, Rheumatism of the
Heart...1221...l1.........81
Rheumatism...............111......3...
Gout.....................1.........1...
Rickets33...........................66
Cancer, Malignant Disease1......11581363...391
Tabes Mesenterica3422.....................117
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus484......1...............1712
Phthisis11411283221142......142
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula54512111.........209
Purpura, Haimorrhagic Diathesis.........1.....................1...
Anaemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythsemia..................1............1...
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus......1......1...1.........3...
Other Constitutional Diseases.........1...............1...2...