London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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) 1894
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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| 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 65. | 65 and upwards. | St. George, Blooms-bury. | St. Giles, South. | St. Giles, North. | |||
| classes. | |||||||||||
| I. Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases | 27 | 37 | 7 | 5 | 24 | 9 | 64 | 109 | 27 | 60 | 22 |
| II. Parasitic Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| III. Dietic Diseases | — | — | — | - | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | 2 | 1 |
| IV Constitutional Diseases | 15 | 19 | 4 | 20 | 121 | 19 | 34 | 198 | 36 | 105 | 57 |
| V. Developmental Diseases | 26 | — | — | - | 3 | 36 | 26 | 65 | 23 | 35 | 1 |
| VI. Local Diseases | 42 | 41 | 2 | 14 | 183 | 79 | 83 | 361 | 81 | 201 | 79 |
| VII. Deaths from Violence | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 40 | 11 | 20 | 9 |
| VIII. Deaths from ill-defined and not specified Causes | 26 | 5 | - | - | 6 | - | 31 | 37 | 8 | 21 | 8 |
| 144 | 103 | 14 | 42 | 358 | 152 | 247 | 813 | 186 | 444 | 183 | |
| I. SPECIFIC FEBRILE or ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| 1. MIASMATIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Small Pox, Vaccinated | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ditto Unvaccinated | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Ditto No Statement | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Measles | 4 | 11 | — | — | — | — | 15 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 4 |
| Scarlet fever | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Typhus | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Whooping Cough | 12 | 14 | 3 | — | — | — | 26 | 29 | 9 | 16 | 4 |
| Diphteria | 1 | 8 | 3 | — | 1 | — | 9 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
| Simple Continued or Ill-defined Fever (Malarial) | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | — | 1 | — | 4 | 5 | — | 1 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Other Miasmatic Diseases (Influenza) | — | — | — | 1 | 13 | 9 | — | 23 | 4 | 17 | 2 |
| 2. DIARRHtEAL DISEASES | |||||||||||
| Simple Cholera | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Diarrhoea, Dysentery | 8 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 9 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| 3. MALARIAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Remittent Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ague | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4. ZOOGENOUS DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Cowpox, and effects of Vaccination | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5. VENEREAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Syphilis | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gonorrhoea, Stricture of the Urethra | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6. SEPTIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Erysipelas | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| Pyæmia, Septicæmia | 1 | 1 | — | — | 3 | — | 2 | 5 | — | 3 | 2 |
| Puerperal Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 27 | 37 | 7 | 5 | 24 | 9 | 64 | 109 | 27 | 60 | 22 | |