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Shoreditch 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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TABLE IV.
BOROUGH OP SHOREDITCH.
Causes of, and ages at, death during Year 1906.
| Causes of Death. | Deaths in or belonging to whole District at subjoined Ages. | Deaths in or belonging to Localities at all Ages. | Total deaths In Public Institutions in the districts | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Ages. | Under 1. | 1 and under 5 | 5 and under 15 | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 65. | 65 and upwards | Moorfields. | Church. | Hoxton. | Wen-lock. | Whit-more | Kings-land. | Hagger-ston. | Acton- | |||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ii | 12 | 13 | 14 | lb | 16 | 17 | |
| Small-pox | |||||||||||||||||
| Measles | 63 | 18 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 9 | ||||||||
| Scarlet fever | 20 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Whooping-cough | 59 | 40 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 8 | ||||||
| Diphtheria and membranous croup | 14 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Croup | |||||||||||||||||
| Fever | Typhus | ||||||||||||||||
| Enteric | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Other contd. | |||||||||||||||||
| Epidemic influenza | 8 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Cholera | |||||||||||||||||
| Plague | |||||||||||||||||
| Diarrhoea (see notes). | 241 | 28 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 42 | 40 | 48 | 18 | 14 | ||||||
| Enteritis (see notes). | 15 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Puerperal fever | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Other septic diseases | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Phthisis | 8 | 26 | 184 | 5 | 40 | 53 | 26 | 25 | 119 | ||||||||
| Other tuberculous diseases | 114 | 44 | 41 | 18 | 8 | 20 | 16 | 20 | 11 | 10 | 15 | ||||||
| Cancer, malignant disease | 83 | 1 | 58 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 12 | ||||||||
| Bronchitis | 41 | 21 | 76 | 45 | 25 | 17 | 16 | 98 | |||||||||
| Pneumonia | 231 | 54 | 5 | 23 | 2 | 45 | 28 | 40 | 29 | 26 | 22 | 56 | |||||
| Pleurisy | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Other diseases of Respiratory organs | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Alcoholism | 47 | 41 | 4 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 36 | ||||||
| Cirrhosis of liver | |||||||||||||||||
| Venereal diseases | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| Premature birth | 75 | 14 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Diseases and accidents of parturition | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Heart diseases | 156 | 6 | 7 | 102 | 40 | 9 | 30 | 21 | 12 | 11 | 22 | 68 | |||||
| Accidents | 81 | 34 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 25 | 7 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 32 | ||||||
| Suicides | 16 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| All other causes | 561 | 150 | 36 | 14 | 14 | 157 | 190 | 19 | 89 | 68 | 125 | 59 | 50 | 59 | 279 | ||
| All Causes | 2289 | 651 | 357 | 75 | 70 | 360 | 79 | 403 | 354 | 336 | 454 | 220 | 208 | 235 | 816 | ||