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 III.—Deaths Registered from all Causes in the Year 1892 (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 | 35 | 51 | 15 | 4 | 29 | 14 | 86 | 148 | 43 | 69 | 36 |
| II. Parasitic Diseases | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| III. Dietic Diseases | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| IV. Constitutional Diseases | 10 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 121 | 27 | 22 | 190 | 41 | 90 | 59 |
| V. Developmental Diseases | 38 | - | - | - | - | 48 | 38 | 86 | 30 | 40 | 16 |
| VI. Local Diseases | 53 | 46 | 6 | 7 | 183 | 174 | 99 | 469 | 141 | 209 | 113 |
| VII. Deaths from Violence | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 29 | 11 | 14 | 4 |
| VIII. Deaths from ill-defined and not specified Causes | 38 | 5 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 43 | 47 | 14 | 20 | 13 |
| 180 | 118 | 31 | 24 | 344 | 273 | 298 | 970 | 280 | 443 | 247 | |
| I. SPECIFIC FEBRILE OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| 1. MIASMATIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Small Pox, Vaccinated | — | — | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ditto Unvaccinated | — | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ditto No Statement | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 10 | 34 | 3 | - | - | - | 44 | 47 | 10 | 28 | 9 |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping-Cough | 5 | 6 | - | - | - | - | 11 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Diphtheria | 2 | 6 | 9 | - | - | - | 8 | 17 | 3 | 11 | 3 |
| Simple Continued or Ill-defined Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | - | - | 1 | 1 | 8 | - | - | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| Other Miasmatic Diseases (Influenza) | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 29 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
| 2. DIARRŒAL DISEASES | |||||||||||
| Simple Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diarrhoea, Dysentery | 12 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 14 | 17 | 3 | 10 | 4 |
| 3. MALARIAL DISEASES. | 4 | ||||||||||
| Remittent Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 4. ZOOGENOUS DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Cowpox, ana effects of Vaccination | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever) | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | -- | - |
| 5. VENEREAL DISEASES | |||||||||||
| Syphilis | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Gonorrhoea, Stricture of the Urethra | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 6. SEPTIC DISEASES | |||||||||||
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | 1 |
| Pyaemia, Septicaemia | — | — | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | - | 2 |
| Puerperal Fever | — | — | — | — | 2 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 1 |
| 35 | 51 | 15 | 4 | 29 | 14 | 86 | 148 | 43 | 69 | 36 | |