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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) 1895
[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 1895 (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 65. | 65 and" upwards. | St. George, Blooms-bury. | St. Giles, South. | St. Giles, North. | |||
| classes. | |||||||||||
| I. Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases | 35 | 34 | 5 | 4 | 26 | 11 | 69 | 115 | 32 | 56 | 27 |
| II. Parasitic Diseases | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| III. Dietic Diseases | — | — | — | — | 6 | — | — | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| IV. Constitutional Diseases | 15 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 140 | 10 | 27 | 199 | 45 | 99 | 55 |
| V. Developmental Diseases | 37 | — | — | — | 2 | 34 | 37 | 73 | 26 | 34 | 13 |
| VI. Local Diseases | 65 | 37 | 6 | 1G | 208 | 110 | 102 | 442 | 123 | 216 | 103 |
| VII. Deaths from Violence | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 7 | 10 | 41 | 10 | 22 | 9 |
| VIII. Deaths from ill-defined and not specified Causes | 26 | 2 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | 28 | 35 | 10 | 18 | 7 |
| 185 | 88 | 22 | 30 | 407 | 173 | 273 | 911 | 247 | 449 | 215 | |
| I. SPECIFIC FEBRILE OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| 1. MIASMATIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Small Pox, Vaccinated | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Ditto Unvaccinated | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ditto No Statement | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Measles | 2 | 10 | 1 | — | — | — | 12 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | 4 | 5 | — | 2 | 3 |
| Typhus | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Whooping-Cough | 3 | 9 | 1 | — | — | — | 12 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 |
| Diphtheria | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 11 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
| Simple Continued or Ill-defined Fever | — | — | — | _ | — | — | — | — | — | — | _ |
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Other Miasmatic Diseases (Influenza) | — | 2 | — | 2 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 34 | 10 | 22 | 2 |
| 2. DIARRHCEAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Simple Cholera | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Diarrhcea, Dysentery | 27 | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | 27 | 30 | 5 | 16 | 9 |
| 3. MALARIAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Remittent Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ague | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4. ZOOGENOUS DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Cowpox, and effects of Vaccination | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Other Diseases {e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5. VENEREAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Syphilis | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gonorrhœa, Stricture of the Urethra | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6. SEPTIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 1 | — | — | _ | 2 | — | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Pyæmia, Septicæmia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Puerperal ever | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| 35 | 31 | 5 | 4 | 26 | 11 | 69 | 115 | 32 | 56 | 27 | |