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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-D. ST. PANCRAS PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 4th Quarter of 1890. 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.

Table No. 3-D. ST. PANCRAS PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the 4th Quarter of 1890. 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 G565 to 7575 to 8580 & upwardsTotalsUnder 5 years
I.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
Smallpox.1.—Miasma tic Diseases. Vaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles4204........................2824
Scarlet Fever195........................1510
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough518...........................2323
Diphtheria22317........................4225
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever.......................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......375......1.........16...
Other Miasmatic Diseases (Chicken-pox)1...............1............21
2.—Diarrhceal Diseases. Simple Cholera.......................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery142......11...121...2216
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 Syphilis5.........1......1.........75
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6.—Septic Diseases. Erysipelas2.........1'21...12...92
Pyaemia, Septicemia.........1111............4...
Puerperal Fever............3..................3...
II.—Parasitic Diseases, Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases1..............................11
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.......................................
III.—Dietic Diseases. Want of Breast Milk, Starvation3..............................33
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism...............224.........8...
Delirium Tremens.......................................
IV.—Constitutional Diseases. Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart......122221.........10...
Rheumatism.......................................
Gout.....................1.........1...
Rickets...1...........................11
Cancer, Malignant Disease............281814146...62...
Tabes Mesenterica1312...11..................2725
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus78...........................1515
Phthisis...31203850381551...1713
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula8522111...1......2113
Purpura, Hemorrhagic Diathesis.......................................
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia............1......1.........2...
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus...............11...1......3...
Other Constitutional Diseases.....................1.........1...