London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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| ages. | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 to 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 55 | 55 to 65 | 65 to 75 | 75 to 85 | 85 and upwards | Totals | Total under 5 years. | ||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 9.—Dietic Diseases. Starvation | |||||||||||||||
| Scurvy | |||||||||||||||
| Alcoholism Delirium Tremens | 2 | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Opium, Morphia Habit | |||||||||||||||
| Ptomaine Poisoning | |||||||||||||||
| Industrial Poisoning | by Lead | 1 | |||||||||||||
| by Phosphorus | |||||||||||||||
| by Arsenic & other Metals | |||||||||||||||
| 10.— Constitutional Diseases. Rheumatic Fever, Acute Rheumatism | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 22 | |||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Chronic Rheumatism | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Rheumatic Arthritis, Rheumatic Gout | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 1 | |||||||||||
| Gout | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Carcinoma | 5 | 13 | |||||||||||||
| Sarcoma | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | |||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 31 | 24 | 10 | 2 | ||||||||
| Rickets | 2 | 8 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Purpura | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Hæmophilia, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis. | |||||||||||||||
| Anæmia, Leucocythæmia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Diabetes Mellitus | 3 | 1 | 2 | 16 | |||||||||||
| 11 — Developmental Diseases. | |||||||||||||||
| Premature Birth | 123 | 123 | 123 | ||||||||||||
| Congenital Defects | 26 | 26 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| Injury at Birth | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Atelectasis | 13 | 13 | 13 | ||||||||||||
| Want of Breast Milk | 5 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| B.— Local Diseases. | |||||||||||||||
| Meningitis, Inflammation of Brain | 26 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 56 | 44 | |||||
| Softening of Brain | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | ||||||||||
| General Paralysis of Insane | 1 | 4 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 30 | |||||||||
| Insanity (not Puerperal) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 19 | ||||||||
| Chorea | |||||||||||||||
| Epilepsy | 3 | 18 | |||||||||||||
| 19 | 3 | 22 | |||||||||||||
| Laryngismus Stridulus | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Locomotor Ataxy | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Paraplegia and Disease of Cord | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Neuritis, Periph, Poly-Neuritis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Brain Tumour (not specific) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Nervous System, other Diseases | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Otitis, Mastoid Disease | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Epistaxis, Nose Disease | |||||||||||||||
| Ophthalmia, Eye Disease | |||||||||||||||
| 3a.— Diseases of Heart. | |||||||||||||||
| Valve Dis., Endocarditis (not Infective) | 1 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 26 | 18 | 124 | |||||||
| Pericarditis | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 12 | |||||||
| Hypertrophy of Heart | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Angina Pectoris | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Dilatation of Heart | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 43 | |||||||
| Fatty Degeneration of Heart | 1 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 37 | ||||||||||
| Syncope, Heart Disease (not specified) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||