Decennial Cause of Death by Age for under 5s

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	0	0	0	0	0
Measles	49	79	27	17	12
Scarlet Fever	25	67	75	63	57
Diphtheria	3	9	3	5	8
Whooping-cough	71	46	12	9	5
Typhus	0	0	0	0	1
Enteric Fever	0	1	1	1	4
Simple Continued Fever	4	4	2	1	1
Diarrhoea & Dysentery	150	34	12	5	2
Cholera	0	0	1	0	1
Cancer	0	0	1	0	0
Tabes Mesenterica	27	27	4	2	1
Phthisis	9	8	6	4	5
Other Tuberculosis	46	42	16	17	10
Diseases of Nervous System	560	124	28	22	31
Diseases of Circulatory System	2	0	0	0	1
Diseases of Respiratory System	660	369	124	57	38
Diseases of Digestive System	207	93	19	8	7
Diseases of Urinary System	2	6	2	7	4
Diseases of Generative System	0	0	0	0	0
Puerperal Fever	0	0	0	0	0
Childbirth	0	0	0	0	0
Violence	11	13	10	7	9
Other Causes	839	45	22	13	6

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	0	0	0	0	1
Measles	67	121	40	20	11
Scarlet Fever	5	13	27	22	23
Diphtheria	8	38	30	31	33
Whooping-cough	107	74	33	10	6
Typhus	0	0	0	0	0
Enteric Fever	0	0	1	3	1
Simple Continued Fever	0	1	0	0	1
Diarrhoea & Dysentery	174	29	4	1	0
Cholera	13	2	0	0	0
Cancer	0	0	1	1	0
Tabes Mesenterica	48	14	9	4	3
Phthisis	5	8	4	8	7
Other Tuberculosis	52	34	22	15	19
Diseases of Nervous System	474	101	26	17	11
Diseases of Circulatory System	5	2	1	3	0
Diseases of Respiratory System	724	380	110	47	39
Diseases of Digestive System	258	77	8	8	5
Diseases of Urinary System	4	4	3	3	2
Diseases of Generative System	1	0	0	0	0
Puerperal Fever	0	0	0	0	0
Childbirth	0	0	0	0	0
Violence	28	11	15	14	4
Other Causes	835	47	23	6	8

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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