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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 Olave 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Olave]

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Table: TABLE IV.— continued.

TABLE IV.— continued.

CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.Total at all Ages.
Under 1 Year.l Year and under 5.5, and under 15.15, and under 25.25, and under 65.65, and upwards.
II.—PARASITIC DISEASES.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases, Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.....................
III.—DIETETIC DISEASES.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation.....................
Scurvy.....................
Chronic Alcoholism............1...1
Delirium Tremens.....................
IV.—CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart.....................
Rheumatism.....................
Gout.....................
Rickets.....................
Cancer, Malignant Disease............5...5
Tabes Mesenterica21............3
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus32............5
Phthisis11...1019132
Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula.....................
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis.....................
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia............1...1
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus............1...1
Other Constitutional Diseases.....................
V.—DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES.
Premature Birth & Inanition11...............11
Atelectasis.....................
Congenital Malformations3...............3
Old Age...............1616
VI.—LOCAL DISEASES.
1.—Diseases of Nervous System. Inflammation of Brain or Membranes24......1...7
Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis............5914
Insanity, General Paralysis of the Insane............213
Epilepsy............1...1
Convulsions101............11
Laryngismus Stridulus (Spasm of Glottis).....................
Disease of Spinal Cord, Paraplegia, Paralysis Agitans............2...2
Other Diseases of the Nervous System.....................
2.—Diseases of Organs of Special Sense (e.g, of Ear, Eye, Nose).....................
3.—Diseases of Circulatory System.
Pericarditis.....................
Acute Endocarditis......11......2
Valvular Diseases of Heart............19120
Other Diseases of Heart......1...225
Aneurism.....................
Embolism, Thrombosis.........1......1
Other Diseases of Blood Vessels.....................