Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TABLE V.
TABLE OF DEATHS during the Year 1896, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Limehouse, classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
Names op Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shewn as separate localities. | Mortality prom All Causes, at subjoined ages. | Mortality from subjoined Causes, distinguishing Deaths op Children under Five Years of 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. | i | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | ||
(Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.) | Small Pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria | M embra-nous Croup | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Rheumatic Fever. | Fhthisis, | Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy | Heart Disease. | Influenza. | Injuries. | All other Diseases | Total. | ||||||||||||
Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | (i) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Limehouse | 554 | 192 | 145 | 26 | 20 | 114 | 57 | Under 5 | - | 2 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 31 | 34 | 17 | - | 14 | 59 | 1 | - | 13 | 153 | 337 |
5 upwds. | — | 1 | 3 | — | — | 1 | — | — | i | — | — | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 32 | 35 | 31 | 4 | 13 | 91 | 217 | ||||||||
Ratcliff | 231 | 70 | 52 | 15 | 13 | 58 | 23 | Under 5 | - | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 10 | 8 | - | 4 | 33 | - | - | fi | 46 | 122 |
5 upwds. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | — | 23 | 20 | 13 | — | 7 | 43 | 109 | ||||||||
Shadwell and Wapping | 169 | 59 | 36 | 9 | 9 | 44 | 12 | Under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 5 | 12 | - | 6 | 28 | 1 | - | 4 | 34 | 95 |
5 upwds. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | 13 | 9 | — | 15 | 23 | 74 | ||||||||
East London Children's Hospital | 262 | 141 | 99 | 22 | — | — | — | Under 5 | — | — | 11 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | —. | - | 4 | 6 | — | 19 | 59 | 5 | 8 | 127 | 240 | |
5 upwds. | — | — | — | 1 — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | - | 6 | - | 4 | — | — | 10 | 22 | ||||||||
Totals | 1216 | 462 | 332 | 72 | 42 | 216 | 92 | Under 5 | - | 5 | 28 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 43 | 53 | 43 | - | 43 | 179 | 7 | - | 31 | 360 | 794 |
5 upwds. | — | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 3 | - | — | i | — | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 74 | 68 | 57 | 4 | 35 | 167 | 422 |
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 | 379 | 22 | 38 | 17 | 20 | 213 | 69 | Under 5 | - | 5 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | 3 | 11 | 3 | - | 3 | 22 | 60 |
5 upwds. | — | 3 | 5 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | - | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 65 | 44 | 39 | 1 | 32 | 128 | 319 | ||||||||
Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto | 210 | 116 | 75 | 19 | — | - | - | Under 5 | - | - | 9 | - | - | l | - | - | - | -_ | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | 13 | 51 | 5 | - | 5 | 102 | 191 |
5 upwds. | - | - | 1 | — | - | l | — | - | - | - | — | — | - | 3 | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | 9 | 9 |