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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	2,162	1,321	1,841	4,284	5,631	8,746	5,827	4,048	2,760	1,605	403
Other TB	3,605	696	411	326	277	328	188	172	168	120	48
Typhus & Typhoid	2,632	1,567	1,189	1,308	1,211	1,445	991	785	713	666	278
Scarlet Fever	6,557	2,859	752	266	115	99	44	21	8	7	3
Gastro-intestinal	2,784	197	108	98	152	347	339	337	380	535	528
Smallpox	2,728	657	156	199	305	375	134	48	12	3	1
Whooping Cough	4,547	318	28	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Measles	3,286	456	80	37	23	23	6	3	2	0	0
Diptheria	581	354	174	58	32	19	13	14	5	3	0
Lungs	9,817	801	331	462	610	1,143	1,467	1,948	3,448	4,498	3,242
Cancer	24	8	9	11	22	96	333	615	797	689	419
Childbirth	0	0	0	66	403	1,047	915	65	0	0	0
Violence	1,893	849	1,007	997	983	1,535	1,173	964	685	497	301
Other	55,946	3,499	1,826	1,907	2,063	4,001	4,820	6,104	9,581	15,079	28,015

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	1,458	950	1,751	4,579	6,339	9,439	6,329	4,278	2,894	1,337	211
Other TB	4,493	774	438	297	260	307	144	159	119	83	32
Typhus & Typhoid	2,277	1,602	1,105	1,287	1,210	1,393	1,044	850	804	618	262
Scarlet Fever	8,093	3,241	665	191	116	93	26	11	10	2	1
Gastro-intestinal	3,364	359	197	126	223	497	467	500	553	639	605
Smallpox	1,004	261	84	103	215	240	123	48	17	6	2
Whooping Cough	5,400	280	23	2	1	1	2	0	1	0	0
Measles	3,675	454	72	16	14	17	8	2	1	0	0
Diptheria	1,297	794	300	115	81	53	39	22	22	11	3
Lungs	12,944	874	329	468	590	1,329	1,717	2,500	4,432	5,917	4,169
Cancer	19	16	8	24	27	165	478	946	1,176	893	530
Childbirth	0	0	0	75	439	1,133	959	61	0	0	0
Violence	1,792	825	1,079	1,084	1,105	1,892	1,523	1,244	932	555	407
Other	58,754	3,448	1,845	1,817	2,013	4,493	5,648	7,562	10,945	16,667	29,433

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	1,640	975	1,619	4,075	5,439	8,990	5,805	3,954	2,650	1,216	217
Other TB	6,135	1,112	588	371	265	319	166	120	95	94	19
Typhus & Typhoid	1,411	1,074	888	987	834	1,069	653	510	429	322	133
Scarlet Fever	7,663	2,938	659	229	114	118	45	12	11	0	0
Gastro-intestinal	4,322	63	33	36	45	111	134	152	270	429	530
Smallpox	953	483	226	325	511	599	263	115	50	20	2
Whooping Cough	5,791	249	21	5	1	2	1	1	0	0	0
Measles	4,969	536	53	19	14	12	16	5	0	0	0
Diptheria	1,144	767	259	85	37	58	38	25	18	9	5
Lungs	18,882	1,108	381	562	720	1,736	2,373	3,524	6,476	8,466	6,705
Cancer	23	6	11	27	29	225	643	1,362	1,799	1,532	816
Childbirth	0	0	0	118	528	1,467	1,021	76	0	0	0
Violence	1,760	685	888	1,139	1,085	1,942	1,636	1,393	1,114	780	539
Other	59,085	3,293	2,066	2,107	2,201	5,020	6,802	9,095	13,783	18,934	30,137

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	1,340	792	1,387	3,666	4,562	8,012	5,476	3,551	2,410	1,078	190
Other TB	5,609	1,283	824	544	351	422	254	157	115	48	14
Typhus & Typhoid	411	496	491	643	590	732	408	276	164	108	31
Scarlet Fever	5,041	2,092	438	105	53	51	24	13	3	1	0
Gastro-intestinal	4,445	61	24	23	23	90	120	153	255	466	598
Smallpox	23	5	3	11	21	36	15	10	10	1	0
Whooping Cough	6,408	251	9	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
Measles	5,578	642	68	26	17	22	7	4	0	1	0
Diptheria	1,052	770	183	70	44	42	23	22	9	9	1
Lungs	25,896	1,876	429	628	854	1,954	2,756	4,163	7,011	9,060	7,157
Cancer	21	14	20	32	50	251	922	1,870	2,687	2,461	1,099
Childbirth	0	0	1	130	618	1,454	1,032	39	0	0	0
Violence	1,744	713	743	1,178	1,071	1,836	1,711	1,505	1,256	857	599
Other	55,235	2,714	2,265	2,448	2,511	5,440	7,691	10,607	16,126	22,890	28,676

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	1,128	475	946	2,863	3,909	6,819	4,987	3,365	2,142	943	152
Other TB	5,881	1,141	771	663	517	650	377	221	142	76	23
Typhus & Typhoid	306	336	328	450	472	690	405	212	118	55	14
Scarlet Fever	2,309	853	209	63	49	62	24	12	2	2	0
Gastro-intestinal	8,005	47	13	12	16	64	92	110	210	402	492
Smallpox	6	2	2	3	3	15	20	10	3	3	1
Whooping Cough	6,638	190	8	3	3	0	1	0	1	1	0
Measles	6,613	460	36	10	17	17	10	4	3	0	0
Diptheria	3,963	1,811	325	85	56	59	31	28	17	12	1
Lungs	29,945	1,392	425	595	876	2,097	2,932	4,509	7,566	9,451	7,378
Cancer	56	33	29	58	66	363	1,234	2,728	3,822	3,428	1,562
Childbirth	0	0	4	143	777	2,020	1,243	43	0	0	0
Violence	2,364	740	643	1,138	1,164	2,068	1,911	1,703	1,392	914	592
Other	69,410	2,637	2,173	2,641	2,672	6,488	9,440	12,940	19,741	26,896	30,216

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	978	436	810	2,291	3,293	6,764	4,867	3,408	2,126	907	124
Other TB	5,113	1,193	844	704	571	923	563	374	243	108	35
Typhus & Typhoid	127	191	203	309	325	478	285	140	91	27	2
Scarlet Fever	1,560	557	86	61	39	53	28	5	3	0	1
Gastro-intestinal	8,667	59	15	9	21	74	78	104	195	275	298
Smallpox	11	1	1	4	6	29	16	13	5	3	4
Whooping Cough	6,457	157	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Measles	6,420	411	28	11	6	15	13	1	0	0	0
Diptheria	3,095	1,421	224	47	32	32	19	13	11	7	0
Lungs	26,199	936	401	744	947	2,375	3,237	4,129	7,155	9,253	7,053
Cancer	69	28	23	52	65	458	1,559	3,506	5,153	4,640	1,982
Childbirth	0	0	0	107	604	1,753	1,225	46	0	0	0
Violence	2,401	754	531	1,036	1,142	2,214	2,128	1,890	1,444	953	609
Other	66,192	2,603	2,196	2,397	2,539	6,488	9,981	14,353	22,344	30,276	30,745

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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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