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Decennial Cause of Death by Age

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Data for 01 Jan 1851 to 31 Dec 1860	Age in mainly 10-year bands to age 75
Cause of Death (Simplified)	Under 5 years	5 to 9	10 to 14	15 to 19	20 to 24	25 to 34	35 to 44	45 to 54	55 to 64	65 to 74	75 & up
Respiratory TB	2,139	1,001	1,977	5,895	6,299	9,507	6,592	4,050	2,389	891	125
Other TB	10,040	1,345	601	418	270	330	183	144	107	79	20
Typhus & Typhoid	2,420	1,636	1,209	1,485	1,151	1,454	1,002	802	723	598	279
Scarlet Fever	10,737	4,449	811	191	81	60	33	17	8	3	2
Gastro-intestinal	11,870	354	160	152	216	437	506	602	947	1,288	1,006
Smallpox	2,421	483	104	100	121	131	59	22	9	2	0
Whooping Cough	6,878	196	13	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Measles	6,695	480	45	13	6	9	4	0	1	1	1
Diptheria	876	385	107	46	20	22	15	4	7	4	1
Lungs	21,087	1,104	409	579	659	1,606	2,296	3,452	5,089	5,927	3,076
Cancer	32	20	16	21	38	193	568	894	913	719	265
Childbirth	0	0	0	120	541	1,106	797	36	0	0	0
Violence	2,281	916	674	689	604	1,045	969	924	752	498	385
Other	76,849	3,704	2,410	2,567	2,707	5,604	7,077	9,196	12,968	17,595	19,358

Data for 01 Jan 1861 to 31 Dec 1870	Age in mainly 10-year bands to age 75
Cause of Death (Simplified)	Under 5 years	5 to 9	10 to 14	15 to 19	20 to 24	25 to 34	35 to 44	45 to 54	55 to 64	65 to 74	75 & up
Respiratory TB	1,996	998	1,929	5,983	6,902	11,159	7,771	4,585	2,578	838	92
Other TB	12,036	1,247	626	380	271	335	226	173	136	76	7
Typhus & Typhoid	3,638	2,212	1,693	1,924	1,503	2,194	1,572	1,320	1,165	768	325
Scarlet Fever	12,149	5,048	1,066	255	121	133	33	13	5	4	1
Gastro-intestinal	17,554	257	99	97	119	304	358	452	773	1,080	977
Smallpox	2,566	480	135	176	207	259	130	65	26	7	0
Whooping Cough	8,269	255	5	3	3	1	2	0	0	1	0
Measles	7,720	501	38	11	8	10	2	3	0	0	0
Diptheria	1,660	667	193	64	61	58	25	22	17	10	1
Lungs	30,270	1,337	460	586	782	2,130	3,284	4,971	7,707	8,745	4,708
Cancer	26	20	12	38	35	269	841	1,416	1,431	1,013	403
Childbirth	0	0	0	181	628	1,407	949	41	0	0	0
Violence	2,706	958	835	800	856	1,489	1,507	1,293	1,094	686	488
Other	89,773	4,212	2,560	2,655	2,702	6,641	9,105	11,890	16,506	21,070	21,144

Data for 01 Jan 1871 to 31 Dec 1880	Age in mainly 10-year bands to age 75
Cause of Death (Simplified)	Under 5 years	5 to 9	10 to 14	15 to 19	20 to 24	25 to 34	35 to 44	45 to 54	55 to 64	65 to 74	75 & up
Respiratory TB	1,958	1,012	1,820	5,472	6,350	11,046	8,622	5,584	2,949	872	83
Other TB	14,328	1,386	638	458	259	329	232	149	131	77	9
Typhus & Typhoid	2,519	1,561	1,150	1,479	1,311	1,819	1,240	1,000	711	411	121
Scarlet Fever	14,186	5,232	905	234	145	129	48	9	3	2	0
Gastro-intestinal	19,966	240	70	57	89	190	290	369	630	963	777
Smallpox	1,259	523	197	286	415	527	274	111	50	11	0
Whooping Cough	10,283	281	3	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
Measles	7,450	460	34	8	6	15	9	2	0	0	1
Diptheria	1,021	480	98	51	22	40	38	14	18	8	2
Lungs	42,455	1,611	520	690	932	2,798	4,389	6,766	10,277	11,599	6,255
Cancer	38	19	15	26	47	370	1,234	2,112	2,299	1,415	483
Childbirth	0	0	1	216	825	1,759	1,163	35	0	0	0
Violence	2,709	959	701	855	962	1,707	1,701	1,536	1,320	903	481
Other	94,529	4,652	2,888	3,043	2,980	7,614	11,349	14,863	21,033	25,533	22,571

Data for 01 Jan 1881 to 31 Dec 1890	Age in mainly 10-year bands to age 75
Cause of Death (Simplified)	Under 5 years	5 to 9	10 to 14	15 to 19	20 to 24	25 to 34	35 to 44	45 to 54	55 to 64	65 to 74	75 & up
Respiratory TB	1,508	1,005	1,648	4,744	5,646	10,199	8,461	5,646	3,154	1,046	107
Other TB	12,165	1,698	953	611	421	492	310	190	129	57	14
Typhus & Typhoid	694	668	665	805	697	992	680	485	345	146	32
Scarlet Fever	7,853	3,584	659	116	71	101	32	7	1	0	0
Gastro-intestinal	14,874	215	68	57	66	120	187	270	498	852	727
Smallpox	234	74	63	124	157	181	107	56	18	7	1
Whooping Cough	9,763	292	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Measles	9,196	622	38	7	6	13	4	1	1	0	0
Diptheria	1,346	734	178	49	28	32	39	14	23	12	2
Lungs	44,738	2,740	666	898	1,088	3,188	5,162	7,687	11,662	13,008	7,073
Cancer	54	20	27	45	71	441	1,631	3,015	3,452	2,568	728
Childbirth	0	0	1	212	746	1,811	1,158	43	1	0	0
Violence	2,670	826	645	820	723	1,577	1,765	1,719	1,521	1,055	599
Other	85,490	4,641	3,268	3,525	3,318	8,111	12,381	17,228	25,212	30,942	24,786

Data for 01 Jan 1891 to 31 Dec 1900	Age in mainly 10-year bands to age 75
Cause of Death (Simplified)	Under 5 years	5 to 9	10 to 14	15 to 19	20 to 24	25 to 34	35 to 44	45 to 54	55 to 64	65 to 74	75 & up
Respiratory TB	1,199	669	1,142	3,657	4,530	8,221	7,680	5,372	3,136	978	134
Other TB	11,707	1,609	887	734	499	672	497	365	220	98	17
Typhus & Typhoid	356	415	540	822	790	1,170	777	478	240	77	21
Scarlet Fever	3,182	1,458	307	111	51	77	28	8	1	1	1
Gastro-intestinal	19,387	100	34	26	27	74	165	248	444	763	656
Smallpox	203	49	16	33	53	129	117	49	21	11	2
Whooping Cough	9,170	224	7	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
Measles	10,812	636	36	9	8	9	6	1	0	0	0
Diptheria	3,597	1,705	229	55	43	52	36	20	13	8	2
Lungs	45,695	1,973	545	848	1,009	2,928	4,862	7,502	11,948	13,653	8,193
Cancer	80	44	43	79	109	596	2,149	4,229	5,519	4,154	1,329
Childbirth	0	0	0	159	829	2,161	1,327	40	0	0	0
Violence	3,443	978	612	868	823	1,805	1,969	2,041	1,738	1,218	675
Other	88,032	3,612	2,966	3,727	3,479	8,383	13,951	20,248	29,188	36,576	28,205

Data for 01 Jan 1901 to 31 Dec 1910	Age in mainly 10-year bands to age 75
Cause of Death (Simplified)	Under 5 years	5 to 9	10 to 14	15 to 19	20 to 24	25 to 34	35 to 44	45 to 54	55 to 64	65 to 74	75 & up
Respiratory TB	1,092	505	869	2,667	3,559	7,164	6,669	5,392	3,179	1,138	163
Other TB	9,452	1,639	947	813	529	863	678	474	351	175	43
Typhus & Typhoid	131	214	300	451	446	866	578	356	195	57	10
Scarlet Fever	2,100	1,069	263	102	50	69	21	3	6	1	0
Gastro-intestinal	18,080	104	27	16	33	72	86	181	321	490	417
Smallpox	65	19	9	26	20	61	72	49	31	11	0
Whooping Cough	8,062	183	7	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Measles	9,950	594	17	4	4	13	5	0	1	0	0
Diptheria	3,082	1,666	240	44	35	41	37	17	17	2	2
Lungs	34,710	1,398	477	786	996	2,708	3,904	5,894	9,894	12,762	8,739
Cancer	97	46	36	75	119	726	2,605	5,665	7,612	6,267	2,163
Childbirth	0	0	0	127	651	1,830	1,174	33	0	0	0
Violence	3,193	881	530	838	874	1,851	1,982	2,142	1,979	1,265	836
Other	74,911	3,257	2,644	3,005	3,195	8,061	13,515	21,848	32,747	40,436	32,980

Date:	Source:
1851 - 1910	Registrar General, Decennial Supplement (HM Stationery Office) ,

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The Registrar General's Decennial Supplements provided extremely detailed information on causes of death between 1851-60 and 1901-10, but unfortunately used five different classifications of cause of death to cover those six decades. Graham Mooney, of Johns Hopkins University, has therefore defined a simplified cause of death classification to which we have converted the original data. Inevitably, many causes have had to be grouped into an enlarged 'other' category, but we are still able to consistently...

identify the main epidemic diseases. In order to include all decades, we ignore gender and combine the age groups 75 to 84 and 85 upwards, even where the original report separated them.

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Decennial Cause of Death by Age