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 VII.
ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the Borough
Diseases. | Diseases | ||
---|---|---|---|
All Causes | 3,527 | 38 Congenital malformations | - |
1 Small-pox | — | 39 Old age | 99 |
2 Measles | 106 | 40 Apoplexy | 7 |
3 Scarlet fever | 8 | 41 Epilepsy | 26 |
4 Typhus | _ | 42 Convulsions | 1 |
5 Relapsing fever | — | 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 151 |
6 Influenza | 73 | ||
7 Whooping cough | 13 | 44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 8 |
8 Diphtheria | 1 | ||
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever | 7 | ||
45 Diseases of circulatory system | 164 | ||
10 Enteric fever | 5 | 46 Laryngitis | 5 |
11 Simple cholera | — | ||
47 Bronchitis | 772 | ||
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery | 75 | ||
48 Pneumonia | 42 | ||
13 Remittent fever | — | ||
49 Pleurisy | 21 | ||
14 Hydrophobia | — | ||
50 Other respiratory diseases | 25 | ||
15 Glanders | — | ||
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination | 51 Dentition | 5 | |
52 Quinzy, sore throat | 20 | ||
17 Venereal affections | 22 | 53 Enteritis | 54 |
18 Erysipelas | 14 | 54 Peritonitis | 2 |
19 Pyiemia and septicaemia | 10 | 55 Diseases of liver | 25 |
20 Puerperal fever | — | 56 Other diseases of digestive system | 167 |
21 Tabes mesenterica | — | ||
22 Tuberculous meningitis | — | ||
23 Phthisis | 209 | 57 Diseases of lymphatic system | |
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis | 26 | and ductless glands | _ |
25 Other zymotic diseases | 13 | 58 Diseases of urinary system | 41 |
26 Thrush | 59 Diseases of generative system | 23 | |
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | 7 | 60 Accidents of childbirth | 7 |
61 Diseases of locomotive system | 157 | ||
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk | 1 | 62 Diseases of integumentary | |
29 Alcoholism | 12. | system | 93 |
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart | 13 | INJURIES.— | |
63 Fracture and contusion | 23 | ||
31 Rheumatism | 287 | 64 Gun shot wounds | — |
32 Gout | 53 | 65 Cut, stab | — |
83 Rickets | 3 | 66 Burn or scald | 4 |
34 Cancer | 30 | 67 Poison | 3 |
35 Other constitutional diseases | 50 | 68 Drowning | _ |
69 Suffocation | — | ||
36 Premature birth | - | 70 Otherwise | 86 |
37 Atelectasis | - | 71 Other causes | 462 |