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's.
Whole Year, 1866, (52 Weeks.)
Classes. | Classes and Orders of Disease. | London. | St. Giles's, Population 54,000. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Population, 3,037,991 | Estimated Quota.. | Actual Registered Mortality. | Corrected for Deaths in Hosptls. | ||
All Causes | 80129 | 1425 0 | 1492 | 1570 | |
Specified Causes | 79446 | 1412.7 | 1478 | 1552 | |
Classes. | |||||
I | Zymotic Diseases | 23680 | 421.1 | 383 | 409 |
II | Constitutional „ | 14804 | 204.3 | 324 | 334 |
III. | Local „ | 29755 | 529.1 | 583 | 608 |
IV | Developmental „ | 8G04 | 1530 | 153 | 152 |
V. | Violent Deaths „ | 2543 | 45.2 | 35 | 49 |
Orders. | |||||
I. | 1. Miasmatic Diseases | 22203 | 391.8 | 342 | 364 |
2 Enthetic „ | 457 | 8.1 | 16 | 17 | |
3 Dietic „ | 836 | 14.9 | 24 | 27 | |
4 Parasitic „ | 184 | 3 3 | 1 | 1 | |
II. | 1 Diathetic Diseases | 2466 | 43.8 | 35 | 39 |
2 Tubercular Diseases | 12398 | 220.5 | 283 | 295 | |
III. | 1 Diseases of Nervous System | 8272 | 1471 | 136 | 131 |
2 ,, Organs of Circulation | 3496 | 62 2 | 81 | 85 | |
3 „ Respiratory Organs | 13230 | 235.3 | 289 | 300 | |
Digestive Organs | 2916 1131 | 51'8 20.1 | 46 15 | 50 23 | |
6 ,, Organs of Generation | 260 | 4.6 | 3 | 4 | |
7 ,, Organs of Locomotion | 241 | 4.3 | 12 | 14 | |
8 „ Integumentary Organs | 209 | 3.7 | 1 | 1 | |
IV. | 1 Dev: Dis. of Children | 2207 | 39.2 | 40 | 39 |
2 „ „ Adults | 328 | 5.8 | 8 | 11 | |
3 „ „ Old People | 2574 | 45.8 | 43 | 43 | |
4 Diseases of Nutrition | 3495 | 62.2 | 62 | 59 | |
V. | 1 Accident or Negligence | 2137 | 380 | 28 | 42 |
3 Homicide | 138 | 2.5 | 3 | 3 | |
4 Suicide | 258 | 4.6 | 4 | 4 | |
All other Violent Deaths | 10 | 0.2 | ... | ... | |
Sudden Deaths | 131 | 2.4 | ... | ... | |
Causes unspecified | 552 | 10.0 | 14 | 18 | |
11. | Small Pox | 1388 | 24.7 | 22 | 22 |
Measles | 2259 | 40.2 | 47 | 47 | |
Scarlatina | 1885 | 335 | 30 | 32 | |
Diphteritis | 431 | 7.7 | 7 | 9 | |
Croup | 716 | 127 | 15 | 16 | |
Whooping Cough | 2933 | 52.1 | 32 | 32 | |
Typhus & other continued Fevers | 2681 | 47.7 | 35 | 48 | |
Diarrhoea | 3184 | 56.6 | 82 | 82 | |
Cholera | 5577 | 99.2 | 47 | 49 |