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	1	0	0	0	1
Measles	36	58	43	20	16
Scarlet Fever	5	8	23	10	10
Diphtheria	5	19	20	23	24
Whooping-cough	111	85	23	12	11
Typhus	0	0	0	0	0
Enteric Fever	0	2	0	0	2
Simple Continued Fever	1	2	1	1	3
Diarrhoea & Dysentery	272	42	4	2	1
Cholera	5	0	0	1	0
Cancer	2	0	0	0	0
Tabes Mesenterica	78	37	9	6	2
Phthisis	35	13	3	6	4
Other Tuberculosis	99	73	36	22	16
Diseases of Nervous System	423	95	33	27	26
Diseases of Circulatory System	10	1	1	3	4
Diseases of Respiratory System	544	226	90	71	42
Diseases of Digestive System	229	60	18	7	6
Diseases of Urinary System	4	5	3	3	1
Diseases of Generative System	0	0	0	0	0
Puerperal Fever	0	0	0	0	0
Childbirth	0	0	0	0	0
Violence	52	8	7	10	9
Other Causes	1,139	33	13	7	8

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	0
Measles	74	132	64	27	18
Scarlet Fever	2	7	1	2	9
Diphtheria	9	37	40	48	46
Whooping-cough	148	93	34	29	7
Typhus	0	0	0	0	0
Enteric Fever	1	0	0	1	0
Simple Continued Fever	0	0	0	0	0
Diarrhoea & Dysentery	472	50	7	2	0
Cholera	13	2	0	0	0
Cancer	0	2	0	0	0
Tabes Mesenterica	74	20	10	5	2
Phthisis	25	11	5	9	3
Other Tuberculosis	143	69	29	21	24
Diseases of Nervous System	404	65	25	15	7
Diseases of Circulatory System	15	0	1	3	1
Diseases of Respiratory System	637	263	86	63	36
Diseases of Digestive System	386	97	11	9	6
Diseases of Urinary System	7	3	0	3	1
Diseases of Generative System	1	1	0	0	0
Puerperal Fever	0	0	0	0	0
Childbirth	0	0	0	0	0
Violence	93	10	16	9	9
Other Causes	1,417	54	17	6	3

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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