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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

Enfield 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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The zymotic death-rate was 1.8 per 1,000.

Table: The following table shows the deaths of residents from the chief zymotic diseases during the last five years, omitting, that is, the deaths in the Isolation Hospital of patients from other districts:-

The following table shows the deaths of residents from the chief zymotic diseases during the last five years, omitting, that is, the deaths in the Isolation Hospital of patients from other districts:-

19051904190319021901
Whooping cough15181977
Scarlatina43828
Diphtheria21647
Measles12613413
Enteric fever034139
Epidemic Enteritis36105273435

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There were 34 deaths from cancer, 10 male
and 24 female ; 45 from phthisis ; 16 from other
forms of tuberculosis. There were 67 deaths
from diseases of the nervous system, 22 being due
to apoplexy, 9 to meningitis and 11 to convulsions.
Diseases of the circulatory system caused 44
deaths, 24 being due to endocarditis.
From diseases of the respiratory organs there
were 110 deaths, 60 from bronchitis, 45 from
pneumonia and 2 from pleurisy.
Diseases of the digestive system caused 18
deaths, of which 4 were due to cirrhosis of the
liver, all females, and there was 1 from chronic
alcoholism.
There were 24 deaths from violence, 3 being
due to suffocation through overlaying and 3 to
suicide,