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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Comparison of Mortality from various causes in London and in Saint Giles.
Whole Year, 1858.
Classes. | Classes and Orders of Disease. | London. Popln. 2,720,600 | St. Giles's. Population 54,300. | ||
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Estimated Quota. | Actual Registered Mortality. | Corrected for Deaths. ill Hospitals | |||
All Causes | 63882 | 1277.7 | 1331 | 1402 | |
Specified Causes | 63027 | 1260.6 | 1316 | 1386 | |
(Classes.) | |||||
I | Zymotic Diseases | 16704 | 334.1 | 276 | 284 |
II | Constitutional ,, | 12309 | 246.2 | 297 | 317 |
III | Local „ | 25053 | 501.1 | 545 | 578 |
IV | Developmental „ | 7045 | 140.9 | 157 | 158 |
V | Violent Deaths | 1916 | 38.3 | 41 | 49 |
(Orders.) | |||||
I | 1 Miasmatic Diseases | 15554 | 3111 | 256 | 263 |
2 Enthetic „ | 305 | 6.1 | 8 | 8 | |
3 Dietic „ | 670 | 13.4 | 9 | 10 | |
4 Parasitic „ | 175 | 3.5 | 3 | 3 | |
II | 1 Diathetic Diseases | 2182 | 43.6 | 32 | 39 |
2 Tubercular „ | 10127 | 202.6 | 265 | 278 | |
III | 1 Diseases of Nervous System | 6571 | 131.4 | 145 | 149 |
2 „ ,, Organs of Circulation | 2521 | 50.4 | 49 | 59 | |
3 „ „ Respiratory Organs | 11908 | 238.2 | 282 | 292 | |
4 „ ,, Digestive Organs | 2573 | 51.5 | 54 | 58 | |
5 „ „ Urinary Organs | 831 | 16.6 | 8 | 12 | |
6 „ „ Organs of Generation | 205 | 4.1 | 5 | 5 | |
7 „ „ Organs of Locomotion | 182 | 3.6 | 1 | 2 | |
8 „ „ Integumentary Organs.. | 262 | 5.3 | 1 | 1 | |
IV | 1 Dev: Dis. of Children | 1771 | 35.4 | 40 | 40 |
2 „ „ Adults | 270 | 5.4 | 6 | 6 | |
3 „ „ Old People | 2413 | 48.3 | 55 | 55 | |
4 Diseases of Nutrition | 2591 | 51.8 | 56 | 57 | |
V | Sudden Deaths | 1622 | 32.4 | 38 | 45 |
Cause unspecified | 238 | 4.8 | 3 | 4 | |
All other Violent Deaths | 56 | 1.1 | |||
Sudden Deaths | 476 | 9.5 | 3 | 3 | |
Cause unspecified | 379 | 7.6 | 12 | 13 | |
Certain Special Diseases of Zymotic Class and of Miasmatic Order. | |||||
I.1. | Small Pox | 247 | 5.0 | 7 | 7 |
Measles | 2383 | 47.7 | 25 | 25 | |
Scarlatina | 4118 | 82.4 | 70 | 71 | |
Diphtheritis | 9 | 10 | |||
Whooping Cough | 2700 | 54.0 | 51 | 51 | |
Diarrhoea | 2093 | 41.8 | 35 | 35 | |
Typhus & other Fevers, continued and remittent. | 1996 | 39.9 | 35 | 39 |