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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TABLE 7.
Comparison of Mortality from Various Causes in London and St. Giles, Whole Year, 1872, (52 Weeks.)
Classes. | Classes and Orders of Disease. | London. | St .Giles Ppltn. 53,429. | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Population, 3,251,804 | Estimated Quota.* | Actual Mortality inciting Deaths in Hospitals, &c | ||
All Causes | 70,893 | 1,164 | 1,263 | |
Specified Causes | 70,639 | 1,160 | 1,255 | |
Classes. | ||||
I. | Zymotic Diseases | 16,236 | 266 | 238 |
II. | Constitutional „ | 13,891 | 228 | 246 |
III. | Local „ | 29,921 | 491 | 589 |
IV. | Developmental | 7,983 | 131 | 142 |
V. | Violent Deaths | 2,608 | 43 | 40 |
I. | Orders. | |||
1 Miasmatic Diseases | 17,75 | 242 | 211 | |
2 Enthetic „ | 510 | 8 | 16 | |
3 Dietic | 819 | 13 | 5 | |
4 Parasitic „ | 157 | 3 | 6 | |
II. | 1 Diathetic Diseases | 2,531 | 41 | 41 |
2 Tubercular Diseases | 11,360 | 186 | 205 | |
III. | 1 Diseases of Nervous System | 7 ,855 | 129 | 133 |
2 „ Organs of Circulation | 3,802 | 62 | 70 | |
3 „ Respiratory Organs | 12,985 | 213 | 297 | |
4 „ Digestive Organs | 3,131 | 22 | 17 | |
5 „ Urinary Organs | 1,331 | 51 | 59 | |
6 „ Organs of Generation | 259 | 22 | 17 | |
7 „ Organs of Locomotion | 335 | 5 | 5 | |
8 „ Integumentary Organs | 223 | 4 | 6 | |
IV. | 1 Dev: Dis. of Children | 2,057 | 34 | 42 |
2 „ „ Adults | 260 | 4 | 8 | |
3 „ „ Old Peonle. | 2,295 | 37 | 26 | |
4 Diseases of Nutrition | 3,371 | 55 | 66 | |
V. | 1 Accident or Negligence | 2,169 | 36 | 35 |
3 Homicide | 125 | 2 | 2 | |
4 Suicide | 268 | 4 | 3 | |
All other Violent Deaths | 46 | 1 | - | |
Sudden Deaths, cause unascertained | 40 | |||
Causes unspecified | 283 | 4 | 8 | |
Certain Special Diseases of Zymotic Class and Miasmatic Order, | ||||
1.1. | Small Pox | 1,781 | 29 | 8 |
Measles | 1,680 | 27 | 37 | |
Scarlatina | 904 | 15 | 5 | |
Diphtheritis | 255 | 4 | 5 | |
Croup | 616 | 10 | 9 | |
Whooping Cough | 3,249 | 53 | 42 | |
Diarrhœa | 3,490 | 57 | 71 | |
Typhus & other continued Fevers | 1,340 | 22 | 9 | |
*1:- 60.9th part of the entire mortality of the Town, as calculated upon the estimated population of St. Giles and London. |