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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

Newington 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Newington]

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Table: TABLE 5.Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1896.

TABLE 5.

Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1896.

AGESTotal.
Under 3 months.3 months to 1 year1 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 Diseases581339638215743412......372
II. Parasitic Diseases4.......................................4
III. Dietetic Diseases..................54421.........16
IV. Constitutional Diseases24312111142653394336141......313
V. Developmental Diseases812.....................618 |2751140
VI. Local Diseases88137104351628286184113993551834
VII. Deaths from Violence2883......11433421...58
VIII. Deaths from Ill-Defined and110325...2...........................149
Totals39334322984536094112137164137671121886
I.—SPECIFIC FEBRILE, OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES. 1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small Pox Unvaceinated.............................................
No statement.............................................
Measles...2747172...........................93
Scarlet Fever11135...........................11
Typhus.............................................
Whooping Cough3212852........................59
Diphtheria...415136...1.....................39
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever.............................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever............53111...............11
Other Miasmatic Diseases...1....................................1
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases. Simple Cholera.............................................
Diarrhœa, Dysentery42745.........1...11............124
3. - Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever.............................................
Ague.............................................
Influenza1.........1...121211......10
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and effects of Vaccination.............................................
Other Diseases (e.g. Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).............................................
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis103....................................13
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.............................................
Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas...2.........1...1...1...1......6
Pyaemia, Septicaemia1.......................................1
Puerperal Fever...............13.....................4
II.—PARASITIC DISEASES.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases4.......................................4
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.............................................
III.—DIETETIC DISEASES.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation.............................................
Scurvy.............................................
Chronic Alcoholism..................44421.........15
Delirium Tremens..................1.....................1
IV.—CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart......1...113111............9
Rheumatism...........................1............1
Gout..................12.........1......4
Rickets......5.................................5
Cancer, Malignant Diseases..................2...102411.........54
Tabes Mesenterica17166.................................39
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus175722........................24