Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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TABLE XXX.
ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the Parish at the Public Dispensary
Diseases. | Diseases. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
All Causes | 4690 | 88 Congenital malformations | — | |
39 Old age | 177 | |||
ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | 40 Apoplexy | 2 | ||
Small Pox | Vaccinated | — | 41 Epilepsy | 26 |
42 Convulsions | 8 | |||
Unvaccinated | — | |||
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 162 | |||
No Statement | — | |||
2 Measles | 93 | |||
3 Scarlet fever | 25 | |||
44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 59 | |||
4 Typhus | — | |||
5 Relapsing fever | — | |||
45 Diseases of circulatory system | 155 | |||
6 Influenza | 262 | |||
7 Whooping Cough | 50 | 46 Laryngitis | 5 | |
8 Diphtheria | 7 | 1122 | ||
9 Simple, Continued and illdefined fever | 28 | 48 Pneumonia | 44 | |
49 Pleurisy | 14 | |||
10 Enteric fever | 6 | 50 Other respiratory diseases | 55 | |
11 Simple cholera | — | |||
51 Dentition | 13 | |||
12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery | 166 | |||
13 Remittent fever | — | 52 Quinzy, sore throat | 44 | |
14 Hydrophobia | — | 53 Enteritis | 14 | |
15 Glanders | — | 54 Peritonitis | 6 | |
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination | __ | 55 Diseases of liver | 29 | |
56 Other diseases of digestive system | 289 | |||
17 Venereal affections | 36 | |||
18 Erysipelas | 13 | |||
57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 7 | |||
19 Pyaemia and Septiæmia | — | |||
20 Puerperal fever | 1 | |||
21 Tabes Mesenterica | — | |||
58 Diseases of urinary system | 46 | |||
22 Tubercular Meningitis | — | |||
23 Phthisis | 179 | 59 Diseases of generative system | 60 | |
24 Scrofula, Tuberculosis | 17 | |||
60 Accidents of childbirth | 14 | |||
25 Other Zymotic diseases | 43 | |||
26 Thrush | — | 61 Diseases of locomotive system | 151 | |
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | 10 | |||
62 Diseases of integumentary system | 102 | |||
28 Starvation,want of breast-milk | 4 | |||
VIOLENCE.—4 ccident. | ||||
29 Alcoholism | 15 | |||
30 Rheumatic fever and Rheumatism of heart | 18 | 63 Fracture and contusion | 26 | |
64 Gun shot wounds | — | |||
81 Rheumatism | 257 | 65 Cut, stab | 1 | |
32 Gout | 48 | 66 Burn or scald | 5 | |
33 Rickets | 3 | 67 Poison | 5 | |
34 Cancer | 15 | 68 Drowning | — | |
35 Other constitutional diseases | 59 | 69 Suffocation | — | |
70 Otherwise | 54 | |||
36 Premature birth | — | |||
71 Other Causes | 635 | |||
37 Atelectasis | — |