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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	30,778	11,375	18,771	50,341	67,388	114,365	84,534	52,198	28,172	10,636	1,728
Other TB	108,969	13,626	6,306	4,074	2,874	3,835	2,378	1,819	1,420	943	271
Typhus & Typhoid	33,069	20,753	14,517	16,072	13,016	17,043	12,743	10,768	9,766	8,046	3,788
Scarlet Fever	99,295	41,297	9,173	2,480	1,183	1,144	638	291	156	59	17
Gastro-intestinal	130,070	4,875	2,019	1,955	2,910	6,970	7,312	7,489	9,770	13,007	12,989
Smallpox	23,373	5,039	1,310	1,514	1,972	2,261	1,028	560	244	106	37
Whooping Cough	86,936	3,539	178	33	9	21	6	5	4	5	2
Measles	67,354	5,649	682	200	132	158	74	34	13	6	4
Diptheria	10,245	5,297	1,927	723	295	356	243	141	100	77	40
Lungs	252,723	12,410	4,303	5,782	7,703	18,027	26,794	39,681	59,604	70,405	48,642
Cancer	535	201	163	306	474	2,853	8,253	13,338	14,554	11,420	5,071
Childbirth	0	0	2	1,272	5,232	12,186	9,325	523	1	0	2
Violence	30,776	10,986	8,385	8,344	8,023	13,901	13,217	12,185	9,960	7,085	5,627
Other	735,527	39,084	24,156	26,735	28,567	65,888	89,026	114,360	161,969	235,992	309,747

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	26,488	10,511	16,904	49,964	68,952	124,135	92,941	58,079	30,457	10,067	1,362
Other TB	124,816	12,741	6,010	3,859	2,723	3,496	2,340	1,886	1,543	923	239
Typhus & Typhoid	33,745	21,721	14,958	16,184	13,548	19,735	17,387	14,876	12,437	8,625	3,617
Scarlet Fever	125,369	51,854	10,685	2,951	1,671	1,820	665	247	100	39	17
Gastro-intestinal	169,360	3,684	1,343	1,118	1,611	4,382	4,873	5,449	7,725	11,093	12,033
Smallpox	17,877	3,394	1,184	1,656	2,387	2,957	1,680	872	435	179	62
Whooping Cough	103,276	3,561	161	41	12	12	11	5	5	5	0
Measles	82,861	5,661	583	210	150	191	113	43	17	7	4
Diptheria	20,853	9,131	2,782	1,103	652	780	484	382	303	176	71
Lungs	305,815	13,051	4,411	5,923	8,021	21,647	33,158	51,560	79,648	94,211	66,887
Cancer	357	174	168	354	549	3,444	10,562	18,745	21,120	16,025	7,039
Childbirth	0	0	3	1,594	5,957	14,115	10,402	516	0	0	0
Violence	36,217	10,733	9,066	9,193	9,303	16,520	16,435	15,538	13,065	8,831	6,501
Other	819,696	40,725	25,130	27,139	28,885	73,777	104,031	136,754	191,414	267,480	329,731

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	23,627	9,498	15,705	44,107	62,105	120,053	97,410	61,361	32,560	10,721	1,372
Other TB	140,516	13,889	6,425	4,056	2,468	3,090	2,041	1,572	1,331	831	166
Typhus & Typhoid	20,032	14,081	10,568	11,848	10,192	13,583	9,774	7,867	6,162	4,147	1,475
Scarlet Fever	107,342	41,399	7,815	2,223	1,245	1,527	630	170	63	24	5
Gastro-intestinal	184,485	1,955	568	461	710	1,991	2,512	3,201	5,629	9,215	10,804
Smallpox	16,416	7,829	3,365	4,343	5,986	7,926	4,360	2,205	977	356	112
Whooping Cough	114,575	3,689	143	19	6	10	6	4	5	2	2
Measles	79,671	5,510	525	143	116	182	92	51	23	7	4
Diptheria	14,426	7,736	2,047	689	414	538	443	272	234	141	41
Lungs	383,382	15,208	4,919	6,554	8,922	25,959	42,330	64,344	100,266	121,587	90,936
Cancer	391	199	194	373	569	4,251	13,953	24,979	30,030	23,674	9,945
Childbirth	0	0	7	1,865	7,162	16,147	11,670	500	0	0	0
Violence	38,288	10,577	8,366	9,308	9,733	18,226	18,312	17,894	15,922	11,039	7,714
Other	843,429	43,477	28,189	29,853	31,042	83,295	124,622	164,844	232,708	310,970	360,064

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	17,611	8,710	14,293	38,804	53,240	110,496	92,702	60,362	32,196	11,407	1,683
Other TB	134,578	16,835	8,388	5,753	3,897	4,818	3,099	2,047	1,380	720	159
Typhus & Typhoid	6,304	6,728	6,580	8,175	7,103	9,984	6,542	4,243	2,879	1,498	432
Scarlet Fever	54,002	22,820	4,174	1,031	587	848	342	80	36	24	4
Gastro-intestinal	149,289	1,691	462	389	564	1,433	1,764	2,335	4,543	7,874	8,683
Smallpox	2,794	1,068	778	1,125	1,446	2,288	1,355	742	319	159	71
Whooping Cough	112,792	3,920	104	27	11	13	14	9	9	11	12
Measles	105,167	8,220	614	171	144	206	113	37	18	7	5
Diptheria	23,361	13,089	2,814	911	463	656	468	294	265	142	41
Lungs	432,725	25,385	5,991	7,751	10,154	29,973	47,672	69,923	106,306	129,862	97,406
Cancer	691	318	312	531	809	4,970	17,393	34,199	43,074	35,857	14,339
Childbirth	0	0	5	1,648	7,251	17,457	11,974	482	1	0	0
Violence	38,661	9,907	7,180	8,704	8,531	17,306	18,780	18,539	16,554	12,492	8,368
Other	819,206	42,738	32,287	35,042	34,519	86,759	135,182	182,817	262,280	358,492	382,859

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	13,877	6,618	11,115	32,460	45,683	95,293	89,296	60,037	31,527	10,948	1,641
Other TB	121,835	16,690	9,131	7,128	5,387	7,358	5,055	3,291	2,112	1,050	283
Typhus & Typhoid	3,411	4,336	5,158	7,619	7,481	11,002	6,774	3,876	2,024	764	165
Scarlet Fever	28,340	11,281	2,458	951	587	670	280	94	34	8	2
Gastro-intestinal	191,214	1,224	323	245	315	982	1,346	2,174	3,969	6,893	7,995
Smallpox	1,064	326	104	163	304	755	630	340	170	103	31
Whooping Cough	105,457	3,109	106	18	10	22	8	6	8	8	13
Measles	111,313	7,134	541	202	103	188	110	47	20	12	1
Diptheria	45,516	21,537	3,767	1,038	529	727	481	296	243	115	34
Lungs	417,776	18,820	5,258	7,963	10,054	28,939	49,049	73,565	111,534	139,948	114,647
Cancer	1,044	518	508	848	1,209	6,277	22,265	46,481	61,701	54,308	23,640
Childbirth	0	0	3	1,391	7,442	20,046	12,943	533	3	0	0
Violence	46,757	10,519	6,719	8,950	9,229	19,375	21,698	21,838	18,671	14,042	9,936
Other	872,685	37,102	31,161	37,415	37,014	93,202	149,765	211,372	296,013	399,716	425,210

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	11,403	5,500	8,867	26,415	39,807	88,577	82,248	60,586	33,160	12,330	1,988
Other TB	91,512	16,777	9,505	7,577	5,918	9,344	6,777	4,708	3,234	1,704	549
Typhus & Typhoid	1,059	1,804	2,408	3,611	3,985	7,129	4,771	2,608	1,276	386	60
Scarlet Fever	19,974	9,265	2,117	903	511	602	224	60	24	7	3
Gastro-intestinal	166,156	1,081	286	206	290	913	1,216	1,590	2,751	4,463	5,115
Smallpox	831	262	206	202	280	693	777	533	234	133	41
Whooping Cough	85,282	2,481	74	16	9	9	15	6	12	14	12
Measles	91,929	5,827	322	136	84	121	94	34	17	7	5
Diptheria	32,877	18,235	2,905	610	294	416	286	170	129	76	25
Lungs	317,369	13,328	5,146	8,264	10,414	28,209	43,149	61,791	97,751	132,821	119,567
Cancer	1,154	538	531	896	1,366	7,415	26,433	58,781	82,844	75,965	35,683
Childbirth	0	0	4	1,016	5,490	16,034	10,574	380	3	0	0
Violence	40,883	9,194	5,327	7,958	8,957	19,651	21,740	22,502	19,362	13,855	10,955
Other	749,692	34,523	28,995	32,738	33,239	85,765	142,843	214,743	313,380	422,124	466,897

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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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