Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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Class. | Classes and Orders of Disease. | first Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | ||||||||
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London. | St. Giles. | London. | St. Giles. | London. | St. Giles. | London. | St. Giles. | ||||||
Estimated Quota. | Actual Number. | Estimated Quota. | Actual Number, | Estimated Quota. | Actual Number. | Estimated Quota. | Actual Number | ||||||
All causes | 17308 | 346.2 | 379 | 14541 | 290.8 | 295 | 14345 | 286.9 | 284 | 17688 | 353.8 | 373 | |
Specified causes | 17042 | 340.8 | 374 | 14376 | 287.5 | 289 | 14160 | 283.2 | 282 | 17449 | 349.0 | 371 | |
(Classes.) | |||||||||||||
I. | Zymotic Diseases | 3382 | 67.7 | 46 | 3604 | 72.1 | 45 | 5032 | 100.6 | 90 | 4686 | 93.8 | 95 |
II. | Constitutional | 3251 | 65.0 | 93 | 3187 | 63.7 | 75 | 2785 | 55.7 | 60 | 3086 | 61.7 | 69 |
III. | Local | 7992 | 159.8 | 186 | 5377 | 107.5 | 113 | 4153 | 83.1 | 84 | 7531 | 150.6 | 162 |
IV. | Developmental „ | 1965 | 39.3 | 41 | 1715 | 34.3 | 38 | 1690 | 33.8 | 45 | 1675 | 33.5 | 33 |
V. | Violent Deaths | 452 | 9.0 | 8 | 493 | 9.9 | 18 | 500 | 10.0 | 3 | 471 | 9.4 | 12 |
(Orders.) | |||||||||||||
I. | 1. Miasmatic Diseases...... | 3114 | 62.3 | 38 | 3358 | 67.2 | 39 | 4688 | 93.8 | 88 | 4394 | 87.9 | 91 |
2. Enthelic „ | 75 | 1.5 | 3 | 77 | 1.5 | 2 | 65 | 1.3 | 1 | 88 | 1.8 | 2 | |
3. Dictic „ | 155 | 3.1 | 3 | 140 | 2.8 | 4 | 217 | 4.3 | ... | 158 | 3.2 | 2 | |
4 Parasitic „ | 38 | .8 | 2 | 29 | .6 | ... | 62 | 1.2 | 1 | 46 | .9 | ... | |
II. | 1 Diathetic „ | 580 | 11.6 | 10 | 517 | 10.7 | 8 | 491 | 9.8 | 6 | 574 | 11.5 | 8 |
2. Tubercular „ | 2671 | 53.4 | 83 | 2650 | 53.0 | 67 | 2294 | 45.9 | 54 | 2512 | 50.2 | 61 | |
III. | 1. Dis. of Nervous System | 1817 | 36.3 | 40 | 1572 | 31.4 | 31 | 1461 | 29.2 | 31 | 1721 | 34.4 | 43 |
2. „ Organs of Circulation | 723 | 14.5 | 14 | 554 | 11.1 | 13 | 544 | 10.9 | 8 | 700 | 14.0 | 14 | |
3. „ Respiratory Organs | 4140 | 88.8 | 115 | 2226 | 44.5 | 52 | 1167 | 23.3 | 24 | 4075 | 81.5 | 91 | |
4. „ Digestive ditto | 631 | 12.6 | 13 | 632 | 12.7 | 12 | 668 | 13.4 | 19 | 642 | 12.8 | 10 | |
5. „ Urinary ditto | 210 | 4.3 | 1 | 217 | 4.3 | 3 | 179 | 3.6 | 2 | 219 | 4.4 | 2 | |
6. „ Organs of Generation | 54 | 1.1 | 2 | 60 | 1.2 | 2 | 40 | .8 | ... | 51 | 1.0 | 1 | |
7. „ „ Locomotion | 42 | .8 | 1 | 56 | 1.1 | ... | 44 | .9 | ... | 40 | .8 | ... | |
8. „ Integumentary System | 69 | 1.4 | ... | 60 | 1.2 | ... | 50 | 1.0 | ... | 83 | 1.7 | 1 | |
IV. | 1. Dev. Dip. of Children | 467 | 9.3 | 13 | 464 | 9.3 | 12 | 405 | 8.1 | 9 | 435 | 8.7 | 6 |
2. „ „ Adults | 63 | 1.3 | 1 | 62 | 1.2 | ... | 74 | 1.5 | 1 | 71 | 1.4 | 4 | |
3. „ „ Old People | 804 | 16.1 | 17 | 598 | 12.0 | 12 | 466 | 9.3 | 16 | 545 | 10.9 | 10 | |
4. Diseases of Nutrition | 631 | 12.6 | 10 | 591 | 11.8 | 14 | 745 | 14.9 | 19 | 624 | 12.5 | 13 | |
V. | 1. Accident | 401 | 8.0 | 7 | 413 | 8.3 | 18 | 412 | 8.3 | 3 | 396 | 7.9 | 10 |
4. Suicide | 39 | .8 | 1 | 69 | 14 | ... | 67 | 1.3 | ... | 63 | 1.3 | 2 | |
All other Violent Deaths | 12 | .2 | ... | 11 | .2 | ... | 21 | .4 | ... | 12 | .2 | ... | |
Sudden Deaths | 138 | 2.8 | ... | 113 | 2.3 | 3 | 86 | 1.7 | ... | 139 | 2.8 | ... | |
Cause unspecified | 128 | 2.6 | 5 | 52 | 1.0 | 3 | 99 | 2.0 | 2 | 100 | 2.0 | 2 | |
Certain-Special Diseases | |||||||||||||
I.1 | Small Pox | 41 | .8 | ... | 34 | .7 | 1 | 54 | 1.1 | 4 | 118 | 2.4 | 2 |
Measles | 714 | 14.3 | 2 | 679 | 13.6 | 1 | 466 | 9.3 | 7 | 524 | 10.5 | 15 | |
Scarlatina | 473 | 9.5 | 7 | 588 | 11.8 | 12 | 1243 | 24.8 | 22 | 1814 | 36.3 | 29 | |
Diphtheritis | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
Whooping Cough | 757 | 15.1 | 10 | 870 | 17.4 | 7 | 514 | 10.3 | 12 | 559 | 11.2 | 22 | |
Diarrhœa | 152 | 3.0 | 2 | 316 | 6.3 | 8 | 1391 | 27.8 | 20 | 234 | 4.7 | 5 | |
Typhus & other Fev. continued and remittent | 444 | 8.9 | 9 | 432 | 8.6 | 6 | 518 | 10.4 | 10 | 602 | 12.0 | 10 |