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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) 1898
[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 1898 (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. | 6 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | St. George, Bloomsbury. | St. Giles, South. | St. Giles, North. | |||
| CLASSES | |||||||||||
| I. Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases | 30 | 33 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 63 | 88 | 26 | 41 | 21 |
| II. Parasitic Diseases | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| III. Dietic Diseases | — | — | — | 1 | 6 | — | — | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| IV. Constitutional Diseases | 9 | 20 | 5 | 13 | 146 | 22 | 29 | 215 | 61 | 109 | 55 |
| V. Developmental Diseases | 35 | — | — | — | 1 | 48 | 35 | 84 | 22 | 51 | 11 |
| VI. Local Diseases | 49 | 26 | 9 | 21 | 183 | 87 | 75 | 375 | 103 | 181 | 91 |
| VII. Deaths from Violence | 9 | 4 | — | — | 13 | 4 | 13 | 30 | 5 | 17 | 8 |
| VIII. Deaths from ill-defined and not-specified Causes | 26 | 2 | — | — | 3 | 1 | 28 | 32 | 8 | 16 | 8 |
| Total all Causes | 158 | 85 | 18 | 39 | 366 | 165 | 243 | 831 | 217 | 419 | 195 |
| ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Small Pox, Vaccinated | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ditto Unvaccinated | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ditto No Statement | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Measles | 10 | 14 | 2 | — | — | — | 24 | 26 | 5 | 18 | 3 |
| Scarlet Fever | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 |
| Typhus | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Whooping-Cough | 3 | 6 | — | — | — | — | 9 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| Diphtheria | — | 5 | 1 | — | — | — | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Simple Continued, Ill-defined, or Relapsing Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | — | — | — | 4 | 1 | — | — | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Influenza | — | — | 1 | — | 9 | 2 | — | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| Simple Cholera | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Diarrhœa, Dysentry | 13 | 6 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 19 | 22 | 6 | 10 | 6 |
| Remittent Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hydrophobia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Glanders | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Venereal Affections | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | 2 |
| Erysipelas | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Pyemia, Septicæmia | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 |
| Puerperal Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Other Zymotic Diseases | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| PARASITIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Thrush | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Worms, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |