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Croydon 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: Table VI— DEATHS Registered from all Causes during theYear 1896.Note.—The Deaths of Noil-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 VI— DEATHS Registered from all Causes during the

Year 1896.

Note.—The Deaths of Noil-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.Totals.
0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 & up- wds
I. Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases252742...111......162
II. Parasitic Diseases....................................
III. Dietetic Diseases6.........11...1.........9
IV. Constitutional Diseases95496971251...67
V. Developmental Diseases18.................2111142
VI. Local Diseases31199899162325193171
VII. Deaths from Violence1312214111...17
VIII. Deaths from Ill-Defined and Not Specified Causes151......1...............118
Totals10555182119212838333216386
I.—SPECIFIC FEBRILE, OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small-poxVaccinated....................................
Unvaccinated....................................
No statement....................................
Measles3141........................18
Scarlet Fever....................................
Typhus..............................
Whooping Cough85..........................13
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup...42.....................6
Simple Continued and Ill-defined Fever....................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......2...111.........5
Influenza1..............................1
2. —Diabrhœal Diseases. Simple Cholera....................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery1341........................18
3.—Malarial Diseases. Remittent Fever....................................
Ague.................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases. Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination....................................
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, and Splenic Fever)....................................
5.—Venereal Diseases.....................................
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra....................................
G.—Septic Diseases. Erysipelas..............................11
Pyæmia, Septicæmia....................................
Puerperal Fever....................................