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Southwark 1911

[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 1911.

TABLE 9.

Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death at all Ages during 1911.

Causes of Death.AGES.All Ages.
0-1-510-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-8-5M.F.
Small Pox.............................................
(a) Vaccinated.............................................
(6) Unvaccinated.............................................
(c) No statement.............................................
Measles328332...........................6456
Scarlet Fever...5............1..................15
Typhus Fever.............................................
Epidemic Influenza.........12.........2...32...46
Whooping Cough20413..............................2935
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup...264....................................
Enteric Fever......1............31............32
Asiatic Cholera.............................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery1291151.........225423...8084
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis12143.....................21......8285
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Fever11l..............................12
Polio-Encephalitis...1.................................1...
Rötheln.............................................
Hydrophobia.............................................
Glanders, Farcy.............................................
Tetanus.............................................
Anthrax, Splenic Fever.............................................
Cowpox, Accidents of Vaccination.............................................
Syphilis111............1.........1......77
Gonorrhæa.............................................
Phagædena.............................................
Erysipelas3.........1...2...2232...78
Pyæmia, Septicæmia12...11112.........1...19
Puerperal Fever.............................................
Infective Endocarditis1......11...412............82
Carbuncle...............1.....................1...
Boils..................1...1............11
Cellulitis.............................................
Mastoiditis.............................................
Tonsillitis.............................................
Malarial Fever.............................................
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart...1l4...11141.........86
Tuberculosis, total:
Tubercular Disease of Brain or Meninges, Acute Hydrocephalus89,091...21..................2516
Laryngeal & Pulmonary Phthisis212l717236282743493...201125
Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Disease of Intestine95111.........1............108
General Tuberculosis, Tubercular Disease of undefined position ...810l...1...1..................165
Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula...1l...3.........1......1...52
Thrush.............................................
Actinomycosis.............................................
Hydatid Disease.............................................