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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(A.)—Table of Deaths during the Year 1891, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. Giles, Classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
Names of Localities adopted for the purprose 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. | Aged under 5 or over 5. | Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Childpen under Five Years of Age. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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At all ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under l5. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 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. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Measles. | Whooping Tough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy. | Heart Disease. | Injuries. | All other Diseases. | Total. | |||||||||||||
Typhus. | Enteric or Tvphoid.. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a). | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | (i) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
St. George, Bloomsbury | 234 | 50 | 39 | 10 | 5 | 79 | 51 | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 10 | 10 | 2 | - | - | - | 18 | - | 1 | 44 | 87 |
5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | — | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 17 | 42 | 14 | 8 | 60 | 147 | ||||||||
under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 22 | 7 | 7 | - | - | 1 | 32 | - | 6 | 37 | 112 | ||||||||
St. Giles, South | 241 | 64 | 47 | 9 | 12 | 63 | 46 | 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 3 | - | 24 | 48 | 17 | 3 | 31 | 129 |
undc r 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 6 | 7 | - | - | - | 11 | - | 7 | 42 | 82 | ||||||||
St. Giles, North | 182 | 55 | 27 | 3 | 5 | 57 | 35 | 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | 30 | 9 | 3 | 37 | 100 |
under 5 | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 4 | 7 | ||||||||
Workhouse | 195 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 87 | 96 | 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 25 | 30 | 12 | 4 | 67 | 188 |
British Lying-in Hospital | 5 | 3 | - | - | - | 2 | - | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 |
5 upwards | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
French Hospital | 46 | 7 | - | - | 4 | 27 | 8 | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 7 |
5 upw ards | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | 4 | 5 | - | 12 | 39 | ||||||||
Totals | 903 | 186 | 114 | 23 | 29 | 315 | 233 | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 41 | 23 | 17 | - | - | 1 | 64 | - | 14 | 136 | 298 |
5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | 5 | - | 101 | 204 | 57 | 18 | 209 | 605 | ||||||||
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 | 261 | 27 | 25 | 10 | 24 | 116 | 59 | under 5 | - | - | 9 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 13 | - | 1 | 20 | 51 |
5 upwards | — | — | 2 | — | - | 4 | — | — | 1 | — | 4 | — | - | 1 | 2 | — | 51 | 31 | 14 | 8 | 92 | 210 | ||||||||
Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto | 71 | 11 | — | 1 | 4 | 36 | 19 | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 11 |
up war's | - | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | - | 1 | — | — | - | — | — | 19 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 60 |