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Southwark 1910

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

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Table: TABLE 9.Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death at all Ages during 1910.

TABLE 9.

Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death at all Ages during 1910.

Causes of Death.AGESAll Ages
0-1-510-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-M.F.
Small Pox..........................................
(a) Vaccinated.............................................
(b) Unvaccinated.............................................
(c) No statement.............................................
Measles3817710..............................122103
Scarlet Fever161...1........................54
Typhus Fever.............................................
Epidemic Influenza......1.........153221...96
Whooping Cough2634.................................2436
Diphtheria. Membranous Croup2258..............................1520
Enteric Fever.........1...141...............34
Asiatic Cholera.............................................
Diarrhœa. Dysentery28151..................32......2623
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis2713............1..................2318
Epiedemic Cerebro-Spinal Fever2....................................11
Chicken Pox13.................................4
Rotheln.............................................
Hydrophobia.............................................
Glanders, Farcy.............................................
Tetanus.......................................1...
Anthrax, Splenic Fever.............................................
Cowpox, Accidents of Vaccination.............................................
Syphilis62......1............1...1...56
Gonorrhæa.............................................
Phagtedena.............................................
Erysipelas2...............1......33......45
Pyæmia, Septicæmia31l1...2...1......2......47
Puerperal Fever...............214..................7
Infective Endocarditis..................112............22
Carbuncle...........................1.........1...
Ptomaine Poisoning........................1...............1
Cellulitis.............................................
Mastoiditis.............................................
Tonsillitis..........................................
Malarial Fever.............................................
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart.........2.........1......21...15
Tuberculosis, total:
Tubercular Disease of Brain or Meninges, Acute Hydrocephalus101871......l1...............2315
Laryngeal & Pulmonary Phthisis5114618266597735382...227141
Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Disease of Intestine83311...1......1.........135
General Tuberculosis, Tubercular Disease of undefined position108...21...51...1...1...1613
Other Forms of Tuberculosis,......2111...121.........63
Thrush.............................................
Actinomycosis.............................................
Hydatid Disease.............................................