Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health to the Vestry of Mile End Old Town
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The deaths of young children under 5 years of age will
be here seen to amount to nearly half of the whole number of
deaths.
TABLE V.
DISEASES. | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st Qr. | 2nd Qr. | 3rd Qr | 4th Qr. | Total. | |
Fever | 10 | 10 | 12 | 19 | 51 |
Measles | 2 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 40 |
Scarlatina and Cynanche Maligna | 22 | 9 | 14 | 25 | 70 |
Diarrhoea | 4 | 5 | 18 | 7 | 34 |
Dysentery | 1 | — | 2 | — | 3 |
Hooping Cough | 19 | 13 | 30 | 11 | 73 |
Croup | 8 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 26 |
Erysipelas | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
Pulmonary Consumption | 50 | 45 | 34 | 37 | 166 |
Inflammation of the Lungs | 82 | 28 | 18 | 40 | 168 |
Diarrhoea, Bronchitis, and Pneu | |||||
monia, of Children under 3 | |||||
years | 33 | 36 | 65 | 47 | 181 |
Water on the Brain, and Convul | |||||
sions of Infants | 29 | 34 | 34 | 24 | 121 |
Dropsy | 9 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 23 |
Cancer | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | 6 |
Hernia | 1 | _ | _ | _ | 1 |
Diseases of the Heart and large | |||||
Bloodvessels | 11 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 42 |
Apoplexy, Paralysis, and Diseases | |||||
of the Brain | 7 | 20 | 22 | 20 | 69 |
Puerperal Fever | 1 | — | 1 | — | 2 |
Premature Birth, and Debility | |||||
from Birth | 22 | 17 | 22 | 16 | 77 |
Violence, Privation, and Poison . | 12 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 37 |
Natural Decay | 38 | 45 | 28 | 30 | 141 |
Other Diseases, chiefly Chronic1 . | 54 | 36 | 61 | 52 | 203 |
Total | 420 | 341 | 414 | 369 | 1544 |
*In the line for "Other Diseases, chiefly Chronic," are included two
cases which were too equivocal to be placed under their usual names. One
was a case of Varicella, registered as Small Pox; and the other a case of
Cholera, too doubtful to he here registered as such.