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St Giles (Camden) 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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TABLE VII.
Table op Deaths during the Year 1897, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. Giles, Classified according to Diseases. Ages, and Localities.
| Names op Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being- shown as separate localities. | Mortality from all Causes, at subjoined Ages. | Mortality prom subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths op Children under Five Years op Age. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| At all ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 65. | 65 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 Cough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy. | Heart Disease. | Injuries. | All Other Diseases. | Total. | |||||||||||||
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing, | Puerperal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (/) | (g) | (h) | (i) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. George, Bloomsbury | 141 | 38 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 46 | 39 | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | 8 | - | 3 | 27 | 48 |
| 5 u pwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 12 | 15 | 16 | 4 | - | - | ||||||||
| St. Giles, South | 160 | 62 | 19 | 5 | 6 | 56 | 12 | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 9 | 10 | - | - | - | 19 | - | 3 | 37 | 81 |
| 5 upwards | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -_ | 17 | 6 | 15 | - | - | - | |||||||||
| St. Giles, North | 86 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 36 | 17 | under 5 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | - | -_ | — | -_ | 1 | 4 | - | - | -_ | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 24 | 60 | ||||||||
| Workhouse | 121 | 5 | 2 | _- | 3 | 69 | 42 | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 7 | |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 40 | 17 | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| British Lying-in Hospital | 2 | 1 | -_ | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | -- | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||
| The French Hospital | 32 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | 24 | 3 | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 30 | |||||||||
| Totals | 542 | 122 | 43 | 8 | 24 | 232 | 113 | under 5 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 16 | 13 | - | - | - | 33 | 1 | 9 | 83 | - |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | — | 105 | 52 | 61 | 16 | 143 | 377 | |||||||||
| 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 | 199 | 24 | 27 | 13 | 11 | 99 | 25 | under 5 | - | 6 | 3 | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 5 upwards | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | -- | -- | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto | 65 | 5 | - | 1 | 2 | 39 | 18 | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 19 | 60 | |||||||||