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Shoreditch 1899

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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TABLE XXXII.

ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the Parish during the Year ending December 31st, 1899.

Diseases.Diseases.
All Causes3,44138 Congenital malformations-
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.39 Old age138
40 Apoplexy6
1 Small PoxVaccinated41 Epilepsy28
Unvaccinated42 Convulsions1
No Statement43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system141
2 Measles36
3 Scarlet fever4
4 Typhus44 Diseases of organs of special sense14
5 Relapsing fever
6 Influenza17545 Diseases of circulatory system177
7 Whooping Cough27
8 Diphtheria946 Laryngitis2
9 Simple, Continued and ill-defined fever1047 Bronchitis918
48 Pneumonia37
49 Pleurisy21
10 Enteric fever29
50 Other respiratory diseases22
11 Simple cholera-
12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery10251 Dentition4
13 Remittent fever52 Quinzy sore throat34
14 Hydrophobia53 Enteritis20
15 Glanders54 Peritonitis-
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination-55 Diseases of liver22
56 Other diseases of digestive system169
17 Venereal affections18
18 Erysipelas-
19 Pyæmia and Septicaemia157 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands11
20 Puerperal fever1
21 Tabes Mesenterica-
22 Tubercular Meningitis-58 Diseases of urinary system31
28 Phthisis125
59 Diseases of generative system32
24 Scrofula, Tuberculosis12
25 Other Zymotic diseases1360 Accidents of childbirth4
DISEASES OTHER THAN ZYMOTIC.
61 Diseases of locomotive system135
26 Thrush62 Diseases of integumentary system56
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases1
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk1VIOLENCE.—Accident.
29 Alcoholism17
30 Rheumatic fever and Rheumatism of heart2063 Fracture and contusion24
64 Gun shot wounds
65 Cut, stab-
31 Rheumatism26766 Burn or scald4
32 Gout4167 Poison1
83 Rickets1
68 Drowning
34 Cancer18
69 Suffocation
35 Other constitutional diseases53
70 Otherwise58
36 Premature birth
37 Atelectasis71 Other Causes355