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 VIII.
ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the
Borough
Diseases. | Diseases. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
All Causes | 3,267 | 88 Congenital malformations | 1 | |
1 Small Pox | Vaccinated | 1 | 39 Old age | 185 |
Unvaccinated | — | 40 Apoplexy | 9 | |
No Statement | - | 41 Epilepsy | 33 | |
2 Measles | 63 | 42 Convulsions | 3 | |
3 Scarlet fever | 6 | 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 183 | |
4 Typhus | — | |||
5 Relapsing fever | — | 44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 12 | |
6 Influenza | 132 | |||
7 Whooping Cough | 27 | |||
8 Diphtheria | 5 | 45 Diseases of circulatory system | 185 | |
9 Simple, Continued and ill-defined fever | 8 | 46 Laryngitis | 5 | |
47 Bronchitis | 809 | |||
10 Enteric fever | 3 | |||
4 8 Pneumonia | 58 | |||
11 Simple cholera | — | 49 Pleurisy | 7 | |
12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery | 52 | |||
50 Other respiratory diseases | 42 | |||
13 Remittent fever | — | |||
14 Hydrophobia | — | 51 Dentition | 5 | |
15 Glanders | — | 52 Quinzy, sore throat | 26 | |
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination | - | 58 Enteritis | 21 | |
54 Peritonitis | 2 | |||
17 Venereal affections | 22 | 55 Diseases of liver | 16 | |
18 Erysipelas | — | 56 Other diseases of digestive system | 162 | |
19 Pysemia and Septicaemia | 4 | |||
20 Puerperal fever | — | |||
57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 5 | |||
21 Tabes Mesenterica | 1 | |||
22 Tubercular Meningitis | 2 | |||
23 Phthisis | 143 | |||
58 Diseases of urinary system | 35 | |||
24 Scrofula, Tuberculosis | 21 | |||
25 Other Zymotic diseases | 25 | 59 Diseases of generative system | 18 | |
26 Thrush | - | 60 Accidents of childbirth | 5 | |
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | 4 | |||
61 Diseases of locomotive system | 153 | |||
62 Diseases of integumentary system | 71 | |||
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk | 1 | |||
29 Alcoholism | 9 | |||
INJURIES.— | ||||
30 Rheumatic fever and Rheumatism of heart | 20 | |||
63 Fracture and contusion | 10 | |||
64 Gun shot wounds | — | |||
81 Rheumatism | 253 | |||
65 Cut, stab | 2 | |||
32 Gout | 46 | |||
66 Burn or scald | 2 | |||
83 Rickets | 1 | |||
67 Poison | 5 | |||
34 Cancer | 83 | |||
68 Drowning | — | |||
35 Other constitutional diseases | 61 | |||
69 Suffocation | — | |||
70 Otherwise | 88 | |||
36 Premature birth | - | |||
71 Other Causes | 316 | |||
37 Atelectasis | - |