Data for 01 Jan 1881 to 31 Dec 1890	Age in single years between birth & 5
Cause of Death (RG 1880s DS definition)	0	1	2	3	4
Small-pox	95	23	18	19	24
Measles	5,879	10,606	4,394	2,482	1,348
Scarlet Fever	976	2,720	3,018	2,903	2,384
Diphtheria	358	805	741	808	740
Whooping-cough	7,825	6,068	2,550	1,408	758
Typhus	5	7	10	14	25
Enteric Fever	46	147	205	230	244
Simple Continued Fever	91	100	108	89	75
Diarrhoea & Dysentery	23,288	6,264	971	353	194
Cholera	353	109	31	16	18
Cancer	8	23	23	23	16
Tabes Mesenterica	6,137	3,092	1,039	417	284
Phthisis	916	801	430	307	270
Other Tuberculosis	5,304	3,774	1,700	1,028	734
Diseases of Nervous System	37,890	8,744	3,522	2,135	1,494
Diseases of Circulatory System	329	81	63	60	91
Diseases of Respiratory System	42,352	23,713	8,793	5,066	3,389
Diseases of Digestive System	12,914	5,136	895	493	393
Diseases of Urinary System	282	405	282	284	259
Diseases of Generative System	46	18	18	15	4
Puerperal Fever	0	0	0	0	0
Childbirth	0	0	0	0	0
Violence	3,481	995	849	721	561
Other Causes	64,119	4,877	1,548	803	594

Data for 01 Jan 1891 to 31 Dec 1900	Age in single years between birth & 5
Cause of Death (RG 1880s DS definition)	0	1	2	3	4
Small-pox	50	18	15	12	15
Measles	5,795	10,029	4,121	2,057	1,152
Scarlet Fever	532	1,511	1,825	1,738	1,390
Diphtheria	600	1,357	1,269	1,278	1,090
Whooping-cough	8,380	6,115	2,482	1,292	741
Typhus	1	4	4	9	5
Enteric Fever	40	118	135	159	173
Simple Continued Fever	61	38	41	25	19
Diarrhoea & Dysentery	31,770	6,778	877	302	144
Cholera	1,037	273	35	19	14
Cancer	31	27	30	30	24
Tabes Mesenterica	5,635	2,467	796	371	242
Phthisis	727	669	397	295	260
Other Tuberculosis	5,529	3,633	1,697	955	736
Diseases of Nervous System	33,578	6,699	2,645	1,530	1,025
Diseases of Circulatory System	656	111	78	80	109
Diseases of Respiratory System	44,792	22,550	7,444	4,001	2,554
Diseases of Digestive System	23,206	6,437	1,229	616	464
Diseases of Urinary System	463	325	177	153	171
Diseases of Generative System	59	37	18	2	1
Puerperal Fever	0	0	0	0	0
Childbirth	0	0	0	0	0
Violence	4,750	1,045	1,132	957	724
Other Causes	68,374	4,162	1,245	647	494

Date:	Source:
1881 - 1900	Registrar General, Decennial Supplement (HM Stationery Office) ,

 

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Date:	Acknowledgments:
1881 - 1900	Robert Woods (Department of Geography, University of Liverpool). Role: transcriber. Restrictions on use: the contributor must be acknowledged but the data may be freely used for non-commercial purposes.

 

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