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 IV.
BOROUGH OP SHORBDITCH.
Causes of, and ages at, death during Year 1901.
Causes of Death. | Deaths in or belonging to whole District at subjoined Ages. | Deaths in or delonging to Localities at all Ages | Total Deaths InPublic Institutions in the District | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All Ages. | Under 1. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15 | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 65. | 65 and up- .wards | Shore ditch South | Hoxton New Town | Hoxton Old Town | Haggerston. | ||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
Small-pox | 75 | 7 | 17 | 17 | 9 | 24 | 1 | 5 | 39 | 6 | 25 | 1 |
Measles | 84 | 23 | 59 | 2 | ... | ... | ... | 7 | 12 | 25 | 40 | 3 |
Scarlet fever | 8 | ... | 5 | 3 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 3 | 3 | 2 | ... |
Whooping-cough | 74 | 30 | 41 | 3 | ... | ... | ... | 7 | 11 | 18 | 33 | 5 |
Diphtheria and membranous croup | 24 | 2 | 21 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 1 |
Croup | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... |
Typhus | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Fever Enteric | 23 | ... | 2 | 5 | 7 | "9 | ... | 7 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 2 |
Other contd. | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Epidemic influenza | 14 | 2 | 2 | ... | 2 | 4 | ... | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
Cholera | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Plague | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 37 | ... | ... |
Diarrhoea (see notes below) | 132 | 108 | 19 | ... | ... | 3 | 2 | 10 | 34 | 51 | 7 | |
Enteritis (see notes below) | 35 | 28 | 4 | ... | ... | 3 | ... | 3 | 1 | 13 | 18 | 8 |
Puerperal fever | 3 | ... | ... | ... | 3 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | . . . |
Erysipelas | 8 | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Other septic diseases | 13 | 3 | 2 | ... | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
Phthisis | 210 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 24 | 163 | 4 | 36 | 45 | 44 | 85 | 105 |
Other tuberculous diseases | 85 | 32 | 26 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 12 | 28 | 22 | 23 | 20 |
Cancer, malignant disease | 87 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 66 | 21 | 14 | 21 | 17 | 35 | 49 |
Bronchitis | •256 | 69 | 27 | 2 | 1 | 77 | 80 | 34 | 71 | 52 | 99 | 120 |
Pneumonia | 227 | 56 | 57 | 10 | 9 | 67 | 28 | 34 | 49 | 38 | 106 | 42 |
Pleurisy | 10 | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
Other diseases of Respiratory organs | 6 | 2 | 2 | ... | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Alcoholism Cirrhosis of liver | 39 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 37 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 20 |
Venereal diseases | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Premature birth | 74 | 74 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 3 | 13 | 24 | 34 | 10 |
Diseases and accidents of parturition | 5 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 5 | ... | ... | 1 | 3 | 1 | ... |
Heart diseases | 147 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 85 | 44 | 32 | 35 | 22 | 58 | 86 |
Accidents | 89 | 40 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 19 | 33 | 10 |
Suicides | 19 | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 |
All other causes | 693 | 218 | 44 | 16 | 23 | 209 | 183 | 123 | 161 | 164 | 245 | 336 |
All Causes | 2441 | 704 | 350 | 89 | 100 | 817 | 381 | 355 | 580 | 558 | 948 | 836 |
Notes.—(a) In this Table all deaths o "residents" occurring in public institutions, whether within
or without the district, have been included with the other deaths in the columns for
the leveral age groups (columns 2-8). They have also, in columns 9-12, been included
among the deaths in their respective "localities" according to the previous addresses
of the deceased as given by the registrars. Deaths of "non-residents" occurring in
public institutions in the district have been in like manner excluded from columns 2-8
and 9-12 of this Table.
(b) See notes on Table I. as to the meaning of "residents " and "non-residents," and as
to the " Public Institutions " taken into account for the purposes of these Tables.
(c) All deaths occurring in public institutions situated within the district, whether of
" residents " or of " non-residents " have, in addition to being dealt with as in note
(a), been entered in the last column of this Table.
(d) Under the heading of " diarrhcea " have been included deaths certified as from diarrhoea
alone or in combination with some other cause of ill-defined nature; and also deaths
certified as from
Epidemic enteritis;
Zymotic enteritis;
Epidemic diarrhoea. Summer diarrhoea;
Dysentery and dysenteric diarrhoea;
Choleraic diarrhcea, cholera, cholera nostras (in the absence of Asiatic cholera).