Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for 1893 of the Medical Officer of Health
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74 Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
APPENDIX C.
T able I.
CAUSE OF DEATH. | Borough Road | London Road | Kent Road. |
---|---|---|---|
1.—Miasmatic Diseases. | |||
Small-pox | ... | ... | ... |
Measles | 5 | 3 | 14 |
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina) | 3 | 12 | 7 |
Diphtheria | 10 | 6 | 4 |
Whooping-Cough | 24 | 24 | ... |
Typhus Fever | ... | ... | ... |
Enteric or Typhoid Fever | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Simple Continued and Ill-defined Fever | ... | ... | ... |
Influenza | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Asiatic Cholera | 1 | ||
Other Miasmatic Diseases | ... | ... | ... |
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases. | |||
Simple Cholera | ... | ... | ... |
Diarrhoea, Dysentery | 11 | 87 | 37 |
3.—Malarial Diseases. | |||
(e.g., Remittent Fever, Ague) | ... | ... | ... |
4.—Zoogenous Diseases. | |||
Cowpox and effects of Vaccination | ... | ... | ... |
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, and Splenic Fever) | ... | ... | ... |
5.—Venereal Diseases. | |||
Syphilis | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra | ... | ... | ... |
6.—Septic Diseases. | |||
Erysipelas | ... | 4 | 1 |
Pyaemia, Septicæmia | ... | ... | ... |
Puerperal Fever | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Thrush | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Hydatids and other Animal Parasitic Diseases | ... | 1 | ... |
Starvation and Want of Breast Milk | ... | ... | ... |
Scurvy | ... | ... | ... |
Chronic Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism of the Heart. | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Rheumatism | 3 | 6 | 5 |
Gout | 1 | ... | 4 |
Rickets | 11 | 17 | 6 |
Cancer, Malignant Disease | 12 | 19 | 13 |
Tabes Mesenterica | 18 | 17 | 26 |
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus | 9 | 21 | 29 |
Phthisis | 25 | 29 | 1 |
Other Tubercular and Scrofulous Diseases | 16 | 24 | 21 |
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia | ... | 3 | 4 |
Glycosuria, Diabetes, Mellitus | 5 | 2 | 3 |
Other Constitutional Diseases | 3 | 6 | 6 |
Carried forward | 174 | 215 | 194 |