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Shoreditch 1902

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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TABLE VII.

ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the Disteict Medical Officers of the Borough during the Year ending December 31,sf, 1902.

Diseases.Diseases.
All Causes3,40388Congenital malformations-
1Small-pox2839Old age102
2Measles5540Apoplexy13
3Scarlet fever341Epilepsy20
4Typhus42Convulsions4
5Relapsing fever43Other diseases of brain and nervous system127
6Influenza67
7Whooping cough2644Diseases of organs of special senseQ
8Diphtheria4
9Simple, continued and ill-defined fever1045Diseases of circulatory system168
10Enteric fever546Laryngitis5
11Simple cholera47Bronchitis847
12Diarrhoea, dysentery3448Pneumonia33
13Remittent fever49Pleurisy31
14Hydrophobia50Other respiratory diseases40
15Glanders
16Cow pox and effects of vaccination__51Dentition3
52Quinzy, sore throat33
17Venereal affections1953Enteritis34
18Erysipelas1054Peritonitis1
19Pyemia and septicaemia55Diseases of liver14
20Puerperal fever356Other diseases of digestive system177
21Tabes mesenterica
22Tuberculous meningitis
23Phthisis18957Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands7
24Scrofula, tuberculosis9
25Other zymotic diseases2358Diseases of urinary system35
26Thrush1159Diseases of generative system26
27Worms and other parasitic diseases260Accidents of childbirth14
61Diseases of locomotive system139
28Starvation,want of breast-milk_
62Diseases of integumentary system85
29Alcoholism29
30Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart17INJURIES.—
63Fracture and contusion12
31Rheumatism26664Gun shot wounds
32Gout3565Cut, stab1
83Rickets266Burn or scald2
34Cancer1267Poison6
35Other constitutional diseases4968Drowning
69Suffocation_
70Otherwise73
36Premature birth_
37Atelectasis71Other causes415