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	1	0	0	0
Measles	18	20	11	11	8
Scarlet Fever	0	3	4	5	2
Diphtheria	0	1	10	7	6
Whooping-cough	40	31	12	7	5
Typhus	0	0	0	0	0
Enteric Fever	0	1	2	2	2
Simple Continued Fever	0	0	0	0	0
Diarrhoea & Dysentery	93	19	2	0	0
Cholera	0	0	0	0	0
Cancer	0	0	0	0	0
Tabes Mesenterica	42	6	3	0	2
Phthisis	14	6	3	0	0
Other Tuberculosis	31	13	6	4	2
Diseases of Nervous System	98	19	7	11	5
Diseases of Circulatory System	3	1	0	0	0
Diseases of Respiratory System	182	78	32	18	15
Diseases of Digestive System	45	12	4	1	3
Diseases of Urinary System	3	1	0	0	0
Diseases of Generative System	0	0	0	0	0
Puerperal Fever	0	0	0	0	0
Childbirth	0	0	0	0	0
Violence	11	5	5	1	2
Other Causes	281	14	6	1	2

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	13	37	15	15	7
Scarlet Fever	1	3	1	2	2
Diphtheria	7	4	9	16	8
Whooping-cough	60	46	6	6	3
Typhus	0	0	0	0	0
Enteric Fever	0	0	0	2	0
Simple Continued Fever	0	0	0	0	0
Diarrhoea & Dysentery	118	16	6	1	0
Cholera	7	2	0	0	0
Cancer	0	0	0	0	0
Tabes Mesenterica	10	3	1	1	3
Phthisis	4	4	4	1	2
Other Tuberculosis	19	17	7	2	5
Diseases of Nervous System	122	13	5	6	3
Diseases of Circulatory System	5	2	0	0	3
Diseases of Respiratory System	167	64	22	18	11
Diseases of Digestive System	142	21	3	0	4
Diseases of Urinary System	3	0	0	2	0
Diseases of Generative System	1	0	0	1	0
Puerperal Fever	0	0	0	0	0
Childbirth	0	0	0	0	0
Violence	14	8	6	3	3
Other Causes	354	17	7	6	7

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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