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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) 1890
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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TABLE III.—Deaths Registered from all Causes in the Year 1890 (inclusive of the Deaths of Parishioners at
Hospitals and Public Institutions outside the District).
| CAUSES OF DEATH. | AGES. | Total under Five Years of Age. | Grand Total all Ages. | SUB-DISTRICTS. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 to 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 60. | 60 and upwards. | St. George Bloomsbury. | St. Giles, South. | St. Giles, North. | |||
| CLASSES. | |||||||||||
| I. Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases | 34 | 37 | 7 | 4 | 20 | 6 | 71 | 108 | 31 | 47 | 30 |
| II. Parasitic Diseases | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | - | — | — | — |
| III. Dietic Diseases | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | — |
| IV. Constitutional Diseases | 16 | 29 | 9 | 22 | 139 | 24 | 45 | 239 | 59 | 124 | 56 |
| V. Developmental Diseases | 31 | — | — | — | — | 35 | 31 | 66 | 10 | 42 | 14 |
| VI. Local Diseases | 73 | 34 | 16 | 23 | 252 | 203 | 107 | 601 | 128 | 337 | 136 |
| VII. Deaths from Violence | 9 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 14 | 37 | 9 | 20 | 8 |
| VIII. Deaths from ill-defined and not specified Causes | 27 | 4 | — | 1 | 8 | 2 | 31 | 42 | 11 | 21 | 10 |
| 190 | 109 | 34 | 54 | 431 | 277 | 299 | 1,095 | 249 | 592 | 254 | |
| I. SPECIFIC FEBRILE OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| 1. MIASMATIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Small Pox, Vaccinated | — | — | — | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ditto Unvaccinated | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ditto No Statement | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Measles | 3 | 14 | — | — | — | — | 17 | 17 | 2 | 8 | 7 |
| Scarlet Fever | 2 | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | 5 | 8 | 5 | — | 3 |
| Typhus | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Whooping-Cough | 6 | 11 | — | — | — | — | 17 | 17 | 4 | 11 | 2 |
| Diphtheria | 1 | 6 | 3 | — | — | — | 7 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| Simple Continued or Ill-defined Fever | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | — | — | 1 | 2 | 6 | — | — | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Other Miasmatic Diseases (Influenza) | — | 1 | — | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| 2. DIARRHŒAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Simple Cholera (Nostras) | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Diarrhœa, Dysentery | 16 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 3 | 17 | 22 | 3 | 14 | 5 |
| 3. MALARIAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Remittent Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ague | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4. ZOOGENOUS DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Cowpox, and effects of Vaccination | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5. VENEREAL DIEASES. | |||||||||||
| Syphilis | 6 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 7 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Gonorrhœa, Stricture of the Urethra | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6. SEPTIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Erysipelas | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 2 | 1 | — | 1 |
| Pyæmia, Septicæmia | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | — | 3 | — | 1 | 2 |
| Puerperal Fever | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 34 | 37 | 7 | 4 | 20 | 6 | 71 | 108 | 31 | 47 | 30 | |