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St Pancras 1900

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

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Table: Table 3a.Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1900.N ote .— 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 3a.

Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1900.

N ote .— 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 and upwards.Totals.Total under 5 yrs
I.— Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
SmallpoxVaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles23919........................123114
Scarlet Fever25111..................107
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough41603........................104101
Diphtheria347174.....................7150
Simple Continued and Ill-defined Fever.......................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......819201024.........63...
Other Miasmatic Diseases (Influenza)*3†42212132229281961407
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera.......................................
Diarrhœa, Dysentery19629311311531244225
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever.......................................
Ague.......................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and effects of Vaccination.......................................
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever)..................1............1...
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis91.........1...............1110
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas..................1331...8...
Pyæmia, Septicæmia...2......311...1......82
Puerperal Fever.........12..................3...
II.— Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases.......................................
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.......................................
III.— Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation.......................................
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism............11623......13...
Delirium Tremens............131...1......6...
IV.— Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart1121321............112
Rheumatism......11111341...138
Gout..................12...5...8...
Rickets35...........................88
Cancer, Malignant Disease...2...2122637715224...2282
Tabes Mesenterica89...........................1717
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus173861111............6555
Phthisis6855910512010551135...47714
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula8127354422......4720
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis.......................................
Ansemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia...2......1...2...11...72
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus......1114...53......15...
Other Constitutional Diseases21..................1......43