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Southwark 1909

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

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Table: TABLE9.Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Deathat all Ages during 1909.

TABLE9.

Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Deathat all Ages during 1909.

Causes of Death.AGES.All Ages
0-1-510-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-M.F.
Small Pox.............................................
(a) Vaccinated................................................
(b) Unvaccinated.............................................
(c) No statement.............................................
Chicken Pox.............................................
Measles26974..............................7849
Scarlet Fever193.........1..................95
Typhus Fever.............................................
Epidemic Influenza...821...4564512312328
Whooping Cough18371..............................2927
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup4245..............................1320
Enteric Fever......1...2...12...............51
Asiatic Cholera.............................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery5410...............11133...4429
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis354..................1............1822
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Fever11......1........................12
Rotheln...1....................................1
Hydrophobia.............................................
Glanders, Farcy.............................................
Tetanus1.....................1............2...
Anthrax, Splenic Fever.............................................
Cowpox, Accidents of Vaccination..........................................
Syphilis61............111............64
Gonorrhæa.............................................
Phagedena.............................................
Erysipelas6.....................2...2......64
Pyæmia, Septicæmia...2...1...11223.........93
Puerperal Fever..................1.....................1
Infective Endocarditis.........122...32............46
Carbuncle.................................2332
Cellulitis.....................1......1.........2
Mastoiditis.............................................
Tonsillitis.............................................
Malarial Fever.............................................
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart.........3...11121.........45
Tuberculosis, total:
Tubercular Disease of Brain or Meninges, Acute Hydrocephalus1123631...1..................1728
Laryngeal & Pulmonary Phthisis.........7222782112714565...250127
Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Disease of Intestine86289,111IS10
General Tuberculosis, Tubercular Disease of undefined position101219.........2..................2320
Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula...12...1...1...111......44
Thrush.............................................
Actinomycosis.............................................
Hydatid Disease.............................................