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Southwark 1902

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: TABLE 5.Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Deathand the Ages.

TABLE 5.

Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death

and the Ages.

Causes of Death.AGESAll Ages
0-1-5-10-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-M.F.
Small Pox.............................................
(a) Vaccinated1.........441491041......3314
(b) Unvaccinated3812342111.........1511
(c) No statement.....................311.........41
Measles341264..............................9866
Scarlet Fever1271121........................2121
Typhus Fever.............................................
Epidemic Influenza341.........14497......2013
Whooping Cough49596..............................5955
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup4421113...1...1............3528
Enteric Fever......1335731............1310
Asiatic Cholera.............................................
Diarrhoea, Dvsentery53182......11...343......4117
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis6310..................11.........4734
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Fever...2....................................2
Chicken Pox3....................................3...
Rotheln...1.................................1...
Hydrophobia.............................................
Glanders, Farcy.............................................
Tetanus11.................................2...
Anthrax, Splenic Fever...............1......1............11
Cowpox, Accidents of Vaccination.............................................
Syphilis51.........122211......510
Gonorrhæa.............................................
Phagedena.............................................
Erysipelas2..................224.........55
Pyæmia, Septiæmia5...111168631...2013
Puerperal Fever...............33............1......7
Infective Endocarditis.........2......111............41
Carbuncle.............................................
Cellulitis..................1.....................1
Malarial Fever.............................................
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart...2511...45...............711
Tuberculosis, total:.............................................
Tubercular Disease of Brain or Meninges, Acute Hydrocephalus20196211.....................2227
Laryngeal & Pulmonary Phthisis...6772048100151126532831366184
Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Disease of Intestine278.........2...122.........2319
General Tuberculosis, Tubercular Disease of undefined position23203221112...1......3224
Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula..................2...1111244
Thrush.............................................
Actinomycosis.............................................
Hydatid Disease...........................1.........1...