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St Pancras 1891

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

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Table: saint pancras parish.DeathsRegistered from allCauses during the1stQuarterof1891.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.

saint pancras parish.

DeathsRegistered from allCauses during the1stQuarter

of1891.

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 & upward*TotalsUnder 5 years
1.—Specific kebrile, Or Zymotic Diseases.
1. Miasmatic Diseases
Smallpox.Vaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles19...........................1010
Scarlet Fever......71........................87
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough1018...........................2828
Diphtherial133...1..................1814
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever.......................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......2...111............5...
Other Miasmatic Diseases (Chicken Pox)...1...........................11
2.—Diarrliceal Diseases.
Simple Cholera.......................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery11...11..................42
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
Syphilis82...........................1010
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas2..................131...72
Pytemia, Septicaemia..................1............1...
Puerperal Fever.........112...............4...
II.—ParasiticDiseases,
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases.......................................
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.......................................
111.—DieticDiseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation3..............................33
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism............11...4.........6...
Delirium Tremens...............11............2...
IV.—constitutional diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart...............1...............1...
Rheumatism.........11..................2...
Gout........................2...2...
Rickets43...........................77
Cancer, Malignant Disease............110161371149...
Tabes Mesenterica441.....................98
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus511511..................2316
Phthisis...242132412763......1362
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula310311...3............2113
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis.......................................
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia......1......11.........3...
Glycosuria. Diabetes Mellitus............11...22......6...
Other Constitutional Diseases.......................................