Trowbridge and Melksham RegD/PLU through time | Life & Death Statistics

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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	15	3	17	51	59	97	79	38	28	13	0
Other TB	107	17	11	13	8	6	3	1	2	2	0
Typhus & Typhoid	36	27	16	20	8	11	10	8	11	2	2
Scarlet Fever	31	14	3	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0
Gastro-intestinal	104	1	1	1	1	2	0	3	3	17	14
Smallpox	9	2	2	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Whooping Cough	66	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Measles	63	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Diptheria	14	6	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lungs	322	11	9	5	5	15	21	41	78	115	102
Cancer	0	0	0	0	0	3	10	9	18	14	4
Childbirth	0	0	0	2	1	4	4	0	0	0	0
Violence	50	11	9	9	7	12	7	14	13	14	12
Other	567	40	19	32	26	74	78	121	207	314	398

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	11	4	8	32	51	111	80	54	27	9	0
Other TB	68	9	2	4	4	3	2	1	2	0	1
Typhus & Typhoid	26	17	16	21	12	6	14	7	3	3	2
Scarlet Fever	118	64	11	6	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
Gastro-intestinal	95	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	10	13
Smallpox	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Whooping Cough	82	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Measles	89	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Diptheria	8	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lungs	260	8	2	5	4	13	27	28	80	159	113
Cancer	1	0	0	1	0	0	10	10	15	24	12
Childbirth	0	0	0	0	2	11	8	0	0	0	0
Violence	38	11	7	5	3	7	7	7	15	14	16
Other	501	33	16	25	24	65	92	103	191	343	443

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	8	6	14	33	51	68	48	45	22	9	1
Other TB	114	13	7	3	9	2	0	4	3	0	0
Typhus & Typhoid	9	19	9	8	5	5	2	2	0	2	1
Scarlet Fever	75	24	5	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
Gastro-intestinal	122	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	3	9	15
Smallpox	1	1	2	1	1	1	3	1	0	0	0
Whooping Cough	58	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Measles	78	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Diptheria	5	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	0	0
Lungs	250	6	4	2	5	15	27	31	59	112	111
Cancer	1	0	0	0	0	3	10	15	27	20	10
Childbirth	0	0	0	0	2	12	5	2	0	0	0
Violence	45	9	5	4	2	9	4	12	8	7	12
Other	443	35	24	18	24	62	95	139	272	335	471

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	2	9	12	26	37	68	59	35	25	9	1
Other TB	101	18	4	4	1	5	6	0	0	0	1
Typhus & Typhoid	1	1	2	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	0
Scarlet Fever	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gastro-intestinal	34	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	2
Smallpox	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Whooping Cough	46	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Measles	46	8	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Diptheria	12	15	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lungs	234	17	4	5	3	17	13	35	67	111	100
Cancer	0	1	0	0	0	5	13	21	42	30	13
Childbirth	0	0	0	2	5	12	10	1	0	0	0
Violence	28	4	0	4	4	5	6	8	13	7	13
Other	321	22	19	25	20	45	74	126	221	326	425

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	4	5	9	25	40	32	19	18	6	2
Other TB	68	8	2	1	2	7	1	4	0	1	0
Typhus & Typhoid	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Scarlet Fever	5	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gastro-intestinal	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	4
Smallpox	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Whooping Cough	32	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Measles	30	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Diptheria	9	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Lungs	175	16	2	1	3	7	11	27	56	106	125
Cancer	0	0	0	1	0	5	16	20	40	67	14
Childbirth	0	0	0	0	3	10	7	0	0	0	0
Violence	24	9	6	6	1	8	4	5	14	10	11
Other	255	20	17	22	24	42	71	136	201	356	432

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	3	1	1	16	18	34	23	22	16	5	0
Other TB	36	8	1	3	3	3	4	3	1	0	0
Typhus & Typhoid	1	0	1	2	1	3	2	1	1	0	1
Scarlet Fever	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gastro-intestinal	20	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	2	4
Smallpox	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Whooping Cough	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Measles	30	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Diptheria	28	28	3	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1
Lungs	94	4	2	4	4	14	9	31	42	77	98
Cancer	1	0	0	1	0	4	17	29	58	52	29
Childbirth	0	0	0	0	2	11	4	0	0	0	0
Violence	16	4	2	3	1	5	7	4	7	6	8
Other	268	11	15	22	9	38	64	119	210	297	503

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.

Administrative unit

Trowbridge and Melksham RegD/PLU

Poor Law Union/Reg. District

Decennial Cause of Death by Age