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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
St Giles (Camden) 1862
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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| Classes. | Cusses and Orders of Disease. | London. | Sr Giles's, Population, 54,026. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population, 2,859,778. | Estimated Quota.* | Actual Registered Mortality. | Corrected for Deaths in Hospitls. | ||
| All Causes | 66950 | 1273.0 | 1483 | 1563 | |
| Specified Causes | 66075 | 1256.3 | 1462 | 1539 | |
| Classes Zvmotic Diseases | 17869 | 339.7 | 344 | 357 | |
| II. | Constitutional ,, | 12903 | 245.5 | 321 | 342 |
| III | Local „ | 25423 | 483.3 | 596 | 629 |
| IV. | Developmental, | 7671 | 145.8 | 175 | 177 |
| V. | Violent Deaths | 2209 | 42.0 | 26 | 34 |
| Orders. 1 Miasmatic Diseases | 16678 | 309.9 | 314 | 327 | |
| 2 Erithetic „ | 343 | 6.5 | 15 | 15 | |
| 3 Dietic „ | 706 | 13.5 | 12 | 12 | |
| 4 Parasitic „ | 142 | 2.7 | 3 | 3 | |
| II. | 1 Diathetic Diseases | 2329 | 44.6 | 40 | 45 |
| 2 Tubercular Diseases | 10574 | 200.9 | 281 | 297 | |
| III. | 1 Diseases of Nervous System | 6924 | 131.6 | 139 | 146 |
| 2 ,, Organs of Circulation | 2993 | 56.9 | 57 | 67 | |
| 3 „ Respiratory Organs | 11190 | 212.8 | 337 | 346 | |
| 4 „ Digestive Organs | 2745 | 52.2 | 43 | 48 | |
| 5 ,, Urinary Organs | 958 | 18.2 | 13 | 15 | |
| 6 , Organs of Generation | 203 | 3.8 | 4 | 4 | |
| 7 ,, Organs of Locomotion | 184 | 3.5 | 3 | 3 | |
| 8 „ Integumentary Organs | 226 | 4.3 | |||
| IV. | 1 Dev: Dis. of Children | 1964 | 37.4 | 62 | 62 |
| 2 „ „ Adults | 252 | 4.8 | 6 | 6 | |
| 3 ,, ,, Old People | 2631 | 50.0 | 53 | 54 | |
| 4 Diseases of Nutrition | 2819 | 536 | 54 | 55 | |
| V | 1 Accident or Negligence | 1829 | 34.8 | 23 | 31 |
| 4 Suicide | 266 | 5.0 | 2 | 2 | |
| All other Violent Deaths | 114 | 2.2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Sudden Deaths | 256 | 4.9 | |||
| Cases unspecified | 619 | 11.8 | 21 | 24 | |
| 1.1. | Small Pox | 345 | 6.5 | 4 | 4 |
| Measles | 2281 | 43.4 | 37 | 37 | |
| Scarlatina | 3457 | 65.7 | 68 | 70 | |
| Diphtheritis | 734 | 13.9 | 7 | 9 | |
| Croup | 937 | 17.8 | 24 | 26 | |
| Whooping Cough | 2150 | 40.9 | 42 | 42 | |
| Diarrhoea | 1735 | 32.9 | 25 | 25 | |
| Typhus & other Fevers, continued and remittent | 3742 | 71.1 | 86 | 93 | |
* l÷52.6th part of the entire mortality of the Town. As to the exact number of Deaths
registered in the District, see note (*) to table on page 3.