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St Giles (Camden) 1890
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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(A.)—Table of Deaths during the Year 1890, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District op St. Giles, Classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
| Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. {Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.) | Mortality from all causes, at subjoined Ages. | (i) | Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| At all ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and und er 60. | 60 and upwards. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | ||
| Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Typhus, | Fevers. | Puerperal. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleuris. | Heart Disease. | Injuries. | All other Diseases. | Total. | |||||||||||
| Enteric or TYhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (a). | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. George, Bloomsbury | 202 | 37 | 28 | 6 | 11 | 72 | 48 | under 5 5 upwards | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | 12 | - | 4 | 36 | 63 |
| - | - | 2 | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 22 | 32 | 16 | 2 | 57 | 139 | |||||||||
| St. Giles, South | 254 | 76 | 43 | 8 | 12 | 77 | 38 | under 5 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 9 | 11 | - | - | - | 28 | - | 4 | 60 | 120 |
| - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 27 | 40 | 21 | 8 | 32 | 134 | |||||||||
| St. Giles, North | 184 | 42 | 17 | 5 | 13 | 69 | 38 | under 5 5 upwards | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | - | 3 | - | - | - | 12 | - | 3 | 33 | 60 |
| - | - | - | 1 | - | I | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 15 | 34 | 15 | 2 | 53 | 124 | |||||||||
| Workhouse | 173 | 8 | - | - | 3 | 77 | 85 | 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 73 | 7 | 3 | 58 | 165 | ||||||||||
| British Lying-in Hospital | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | under 5 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| French Hospital | 20 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 13 | 3 | under 5 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 3 |
| - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | 2 | - | 9 | 17 | |||||||||
| Totals | 837 | 168 | 89 | 19 | 40 | 309 | 202 | under 5 5 upwards | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | 15 | 16 | - | - | - | 54 | - | 12 | 140 | 257 |
| - | - | 3 | 2 | - | 6 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 5 | 3 | - | 90 | 180 | 61 | 15 | 210 | 580 | |||||||||
The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality.
| Deaths occurring outside the district among persons belonging thereto | 258 | 22 | 20 | 15 | 14 | 122 | 65 | under 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 6 | 2 | 19 | 42 | |||
| 5 upwards | - | 3 | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 52 | 30 | 28 | 8 | 92 | 216 | ||||||||
| Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto | 60 | 9 | 1 | - | 2 | 33 | 5 | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 8 | 10 |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 50 |