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 | ||||||||