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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
Kensington 1885
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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The subjoined Table is a summary of Table 3 (Appendix) shewing the numbers of deaths of parishioners in 1885, in each Class and Order, according to the Registrar-General's rearranged classification:—
| 1. SPECIFIC FEBRILE OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES. No. of Deaths | ||||
| 1. | Miasmatic diseases | 276 | ||
| 2. | Diarrhoeal „ | 86 | ||
| 3. | Malarial | — | ||
| 4. | Zoogenous „ | — | ||
| 5. | Venereal „ | 27 | ||
| 6. | Septic „ | 40 | ||
| 429 | ||||
| II. | PARASITIC DISEASES | 7 | ||
| III. | DIETETIC DISEASES | 9 | ||
| IV. | CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES | 611 | ||
| V. | DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES | 160 | ||
| VI. | LOCAL DISEASES | |||
| 1. | Diseases of Nervous system | 288 | ||
| 2. | Diseases of Organs of Special Sense | 2 | ||
| 3. | Diseases of Circulatory system | 170 | ||
| 4. | Diseases of Respiratory system | 613 | ||
| 5. | Diseases of Digestive system | 168 | ||
| 6. | Diseases of Lymphatic system | — | ||
| 7. | Diseases of Glandlike Organs of uncertain use | 1 | ||
| 8. | Diseases of Urinary system | 82 | ||
| 9. | Diseases of Reproductive system | |||
| a. Diseases of Organs of Generation | 5 | |||
| b. Diseases of Parturition | 9 | |||
| 10. | Diseases of Locomotive system | 4 | ||
| 11. | Diseases of Integumentary system | 4 | ||
| 1,346 | ||||
| VII. | VIOLENCE | |||
| 1. | Accident or Negligence | 51 | ||
| 2. | Battle | — | ||
| 3. | Homicide | — | ||
| 4. | Suicide | 10 | ||
| 5. | Execution | — | 61 | |
| vii. | ILL | DEFINED AND NOT SPECIFIED CAUSES | 145 | |
| Total | 2,768 | |||
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