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 III
Deaths registered from all cruses during the Year, 1889.
Note- The Deaths of non-Residents occuring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded
and the deaths of Residents occuring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the Districts,
are included.
Cause of Death. | AGES | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 to 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to45 | 45 to 55 | 55 to 65 | 65 to 75 | 75 to 85 | 85 and upwords | Total. | ||
CLASSES. | |||||||||||||
I. Zvmotic Dineaflen | 63 | 80 | 13 | I2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 201 | |
11. Parasitic Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
III. Dietic Diseases | .. | . . | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
IV. Constitutional Diseases | 29 | 37 | 13 | 20 | 32 | 38 | 26 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 226 | |
V. Di velopmental Disease | 19 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | 11 | 30 | 10 | 77 | |
VI Local Diseases | 153 | 115 | 40 | 25 | 22 | 62 | 82 | 93 | 85 | 31 | 6 | 714 | |
VII Violent Deaths | 17 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | 81 | |
VIII Not specitied or ill detined | 60 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 64 | |
Totals | 341 | 240 | 80 | 72 | 71 | 115 | 122 | 119 | 180 | 68 | 18 | 1363 | |
Class 1. ZVMOTIC DlSEASES | ammm | ||||||||||||
Order 1.-Miasmatic | |||||||||||||
1 Smallpox | vaccinated | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. . ... | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Unvaccinate | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
No statement | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
2 Measles | 6 | 14 | |||||||||||
3 Scarlet Kever (Smarlalita.) | 4 | 19 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. .. | .. | .. | .. | |
4 Tyrphus Fever | 1 | ||||||||||||
5 Whooping Cough | 9 | 14 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 23 | |
6 Diphtheria | 4 | 31 | 2 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 41 | |
7 Simple continued fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
8 Enteric or Typhoid Fever | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 13 | |
9 Other Miasmatic diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Order2.-Diarrhaeal diseacs. | |||||||||||||
1 Simple Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |
2 Diarrhæes | 32 | 7 | 1 | . . | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 3 | 1 | 1 | 47 | |
Order 3.- Malarial diseases. | |||||||||||||
1 Remittent Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
2 Ague | |||||||||||||
Order 4. - Zoogenous Discases | |||||||||||||
l Cowpox | |||||||||||||
2 Other Diseases | |||||||||||||
Order 5- Venercal diseases, | |||||||||||||
1 Syphilis | 1 | ||||||||||||
2 Gonorhæa Stricture of Urethra | 1 | | | |||||||||||
Order 6.-Septic diseases | |||||||||||||
1 Erysipelas | 1 | . . | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | i | ||||||
2 Pyaemia, Septicaemia | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
3 Puerperal Fever | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Class 2. Parasitic diseases | |||||||||||||
1 Thrush | |||||||||||||
Class 3. DirticDiseases. | |||||||||||||
1 Want of Breast Milk | |||||||||||||
Class 4. Constitutional Diseases | |||||||||||||
1 Rhcuiuatic Fever . | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
2 Rheumatism | 4 | i | 2 | ||||||||||
3 Gout | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
4 Rickets | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
5 Cancer | 5 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 10 | |||||||
6 Tabes Mesenteries | 18 | 5 | 1 | 32 | |||||||||
7 Hydrocephalus | 7 | 13 | 2 | . . | 24 | ||||||||
is Phthisis | 2 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 30 | 32 | 14 | 5 | 22 | ||||
9 Scrofula | 6 | 3 | 1 | 114 | |||||||||
10 Diabetes | .j | l | . . | 1 | . . s | 10 | |||||||
11 Other Diseases | 1 | . . | I | .. j | 4 | ||||||||
Class 5. Developmental diseases | .. | . . | . . | . . | . . | .. | .. | ||||||
l Premature Birth | 18 | 20 | |||||||||||
2 Atelectasis | 1 | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | 10 | |
3 Old Age | . . | . . | . . | 4 | |||||||||
Class 6. Local Diseases Order 1.-Nervous System | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | 3 | 13 | 30 | 11 | |||
1 Inflammation of Brain | 8 | 12 | 5 | 1 | . . | . . | 1 | 1 | . . | . . | . . | 31 | |
2 Apoplexy | . . | . . | . . | . . | l 1 7 | 1 | " | 65 | |||||
3 Insanity | . . | . . | 1 | 7 | 17 | 12 | 18 | 0 | . . | ||||
4 Epilepsy | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | ||||||
5 Convulsions | 29 | 9 | 2 | . . | 2 | 3 | . . | . . | 7 | ||||
6 Laryngismus Stridulus | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | . . | . . | 38 | ||||||
7Paralysis Agitans | 1 | 1 | " | 1 | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | 4 | |||
1 Other Diseases | . . | 1 | . . | 1 | .. | . . | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 |