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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Shoreditch 1896

Annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch for the year 1896

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Table: TABLE XXVI.SUMMARY OF THE DEATHS IN THE PARISH OF SAINT LEONARD, SHOREDITCH, AND IN EACH SUB-DISTRICT, FOR THE YEAR 1896.

TABLE XXVI.

SUMMARY OF THE DEATHS IN THE PARISH OF SAINT LEONARD, SHOREDITCH, AND IN EACH SUB-DISTRICT, FOR THE YEAR 1896.

CAUSES OF DEATH.DEATHS IN EACH SUB-DISTRICT.
Shoreditch South.Hoxton New Town.Hoxton Old Town.Haggerston.Total.
I.—ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1. Miasmatic Diseases5910268161390
2. Diarrhœal „15253477151
3. Malarial „...............
4. Zoogenous „...1.........
5. Tubercular „386564184301
6. Venereal „......279
7. Septic „325414
Total Zymotic Diseases115195173383866
II. PARASITIC DISEASES...............
III. DIETIC422518
IV. CONSTITUTIONAL „1820173085
V.—LOCAL DISEASES.
1. Diseases of the Nervous System485560106269
2. „ „ Circulatory „34433974190
3. „ „ Respiratory Organs72106102238518
4. „ „ Digestive „19232253117
5. „ „ Urinary „1121123579
6. „ „ Generative System325212
7. „ „ Bones and Joints...1118
8. „ „ Integumentary System......112
9. „ „ Organs of Special Sense112...4
10. „ „ Glandular Organs...............
Total Deaths Local Diseases1882522445101194
VI. DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES18505681205
VII.—VIOLENT DEATHS.
1. Accident or Negligence1326223192
2. Homicide...............
3. Suicide811611
Total Violent Deaths16272337103
VIII. CAUSES ILL-DEFINED21458753156
Total Deaths from all causes38059155210992622