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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

Marylebone 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone]

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Table: TABLE 3.Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1897.

TABLE 3.

Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1897.

AGES.Total.
Under 3 months.3 months to 1 year.1 to 22 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 to 9595 and Upwards
I. Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases611091193912711107424......385
II. Parasitic Diseases.............................................
III. Dietetic Diseases..................146...1.........12
IV. Constitutional Diseases1141311273044544926144......323
V. Developmental Diseases100............2............133413...162
VI. Local Diseases95126100272820337280107102314...825
VII. Deaths from Violence151223222412...1......46
VIII. Deaths from Ill-Defined and Not Specified Causes903361......1433............141
Totals372321258824961921481461421327417...1894
I.— SPECIFIC FEBRILE, OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small PoxVaccinated
Unvaccinated.............................................
No Statement.............................................
Measles...1749143...........................83
Scarlet Fever1113..............................6
Typhus.............................................
Whooping Cough3'203713..............................73
Diphtheria121228...........................25
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever..........................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...............322..................7
Other Miasmatic Diseases.............................................
2.—Diarrhoeal Diseases.
Simple Cholera.............................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery49671751......23424......154
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever...............1........................1
Ague................................................
Influenza......2.........134...............10
4. Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and effects of Vaccination...1....................................1
Other Diseases (e.g. Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).............................................
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis61...............1..................8
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra.............................................
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas1...1.................................2
Pyaemia, Septicaemia.........2...22.....................6
Puerperal Fever...............162..................9
II.— PARASITIC DISEASES.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases.............................................
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.............................................
III -DIETETIC DISEASES.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation.............................................
Scurvy.............................................
Chronic Alcoholism..................136...1.........11
Delirium Tremens.....................1..................1
IV.— CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart............1...1221............7
Rheumatism.............................................
Gout.....................1..................1
Rickets...351..............................9
Cancer, Malignant Diseases.........1...1141919114......60
Tabes Mesenterica8173.................................28
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus114175...1........................38