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 St. Giles's.
Whole Year, 1860.
| Classes. | classes and orders of disease. | London. Population: 2,758,954 | St. Giles's. Population 54,063. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimated Quota. 1÷51.1. | Actual Registered Mortality. | Corrected for Deaths in Hospit. | |||
| All Causes | 61821 | 1209.8 | 1337 | 1419 | |
| Specified Causes | 61148 | 1196.6 | 1323 | 1402 | |
| (Classes.) | |||||
| I | Zymotic Diseases | 13001 | 254.4 | 255 | 264 |
| II | Constiutional „ | 12523 | 245.0 | 301 | 314 |
| III | Local „ | 26246 | 513.7 | 575 | 613 |
| IV | developmental „ | 7240 | 141.7 | 171 | 172 |
| V | Violent Deaths | 2138 | 41.8 | 21 | 39 |
| (Orders.) | |||||
| I | 1 Miasmatic Diseases | 11923 | 233.3 | 231 | 242 |
| 2 Enthetic „ | 322 | 6.3 | 12 | 12 | |
| 3 Dietic „ | 661 | 13.0 | 9 | 10 | |
| 4 Parasitic „ | 95 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 | |
| II | 1 Diathetic Diseases | 2148 | 42.0 | 29 | 33 |
| 2 Tubercular „ | 10375 | 203.0 | 272 | 281 | |
| III | 1 Diseases of Nervous Svstem | 6749 | 132.1 | 140 | 144 |
| 2 „ Organs of Circulation | 2911 | 57.0 | 54 | 63 | |
| 3 Respiratory Organs | 12444 | 243.5 | 301 | 311 | |
| 4 „ Digestive Organs | 2611 | 51.1 | 60 | 66 | |
| 5 „ Urinary Organs | 888 | 17.4 | 15 | 23 | |
| 6 „ Organs of Generation | 193 | 3.8 | 2 | 2 | |
| 7 „ Organs of Locomotion | 176 | 3.4 | 1 | 1 | |
| 8 „ Integumentary organs | 274 | 5.4 | 2 | 3 | |
| IV | 1 Dev: Dis. of Children | 1914 | 37.5 | 50 | 50 |
| 2 „ „ Adults | 262 | 5.1 | 7 | 7 | |
| 3 „ „ Old People | 2388 | 46.7 | 69 | 70 | |
| 4 Diseases of Nutrition | 2676 | 52.4 | 45 | 45 | |
| V | 1 Accident | 1715 | 33.5 | 17 | 31 |
| 4 Suicide | 285 | 5.6 | 3 | 6 | |
| All other Violent Deaths | 138 | 2.7 | 1 | 2 | |
| Sudden Deaths | 138 | 2.7 | 1 | 1 | |
| Cause unspecified | 535 | 10.5 | 13 | 16 | |
| Certain Special Diseases of Zymotic Class and Miasmatic Order. | |||||
| [1. | Small-pox | 877 | 17.2 | 18 | 18 |
| Measles | 2054 | 40.2 | 38 | 40 | |
| Scarlatina and Diphtheritis | 2457 | 48.1 | 36 | 37 | |
| Whooping Cough | 2023 | 39.8 | 43 | 43 | |
| Diarrhœa | 1383 | 27.1 | 36 | 37 | |
| Typhus and other Fevers, con tinued and remittent | 1634 | 32.0 | 30 | 31 | |