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St Pancras 1893

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

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Table: Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year, 18)3.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.

Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year, 18)3.

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 & upwardsTotals1 Under 5 years
I.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases. 1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small-! pox.Vaccinated......1...12...............4...
Unvaccinatedl2............1............43
No Statement..............1...............1...
Measles351113........................149146
Scarlet Fever5573152...1............10162
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough49513........................103100
Diphtheria12121593...21...1......199133
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fevei....................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever1...396311.........241
Other Miasmatic Diseases (Influenza)52148111291241697
2.—Diarrhosal Diseases.
Simple Cholera1...11.....................21
Diarrhœa, Dysentery14321342132522188164
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-
Syphilis181............2............2119
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6.—Septic Diseases..........
Erysipelas411...289632...365
Pysemia, Septicaemia11......35321......162
Puerperal Fever.........291...............12...
11.—Parasitic Diseases,
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases2..............................22
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases...1......1..................21
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation1..................2.........31
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism............213523......25...
Delirium Tremens............5......1.........6...
IV.—Constitutional Diseases. Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart......5896111......31...
Rheumatism...1...11...111......61
Gout............132...129...
Rickets66........................11212
Cancer, Malignant Disease.........2225386147183196...
Tabes Mesenterica34102........................4644
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalu8213216........................6953
Phthisis771359119125803963...15814
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula232165224211...6741
Purpura, Hemorrhagic Diathesis...1...1.....................21
Anaemia, Chlorosis, Leucocytheemia......2111...............5...
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus......11...3142......11...
Other Constitntional Diseases......11......41............3...