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 ok the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the Borough
Diseases. | Diseases. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
All Causes | 4,107 | 37 | Atelectasis | ... | |
38 | Congenital malformations | ||||
39 | Old age | 149 | |||
I | Small-pox | ... | 40 | Apoplexy | 3 |
2 | Measles | 98 | 41 | Epilepsy | 22 |
3 | Scarlet fever | 19 | 42 | Convulsions | 2 |
4 | Typhus | ... | 43 | Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 254 |
5 | Relapsing fever | ... | |||
6 | Influenza | 110 | |||
44 | Diseases of organs of special sense | 19 | |||
7 | Whooping cough | 32 | |||
8 | Diphtheria | 5 | |||
9 | Simple, continued and ill-defined fever | 9 | 45 | Diseases of circulatory system | 185 |
46 | Laryngitis | 5 | |||
10 | Enteric fever | 3 | |||
11 | Simple cholera | ... | 47 | Bronchitis | 913 |
12 | Diarrhoea, dysentery | 100 | 48 | Pneumonia | 61 |
13 | Kemittent fever | ... | 49 | Pleurisy | 22 |
14 | Hydrophobia | ... | 50 | Other respiratory diseases | 42 |
15 | Glanders | 51 | Dentition | 8 | |
16 | Cow pox and effects of vaccination | ... | |||
52 | Quinzy, sore throat | 41 | |||
53 | Enteritis | 48 | |||
17 | Venereal affections | 29 | |||
54 | Peritonitis | 3 | |||
18 | Erysipelas | 29 | |||
55 | Diseases of liver | 28 | |||
19 | Pyaemia and septicemia | 2 | |||
56 | Other diseases of digestive system | 302 | |||
20 | Puerperal fever | 1 | |||
21 | Tabes mesenterica | 2 | |||
22 | Tuberculous meningitis | 1 | |||
57 | Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 8 | |||
23 | Phthisis | 194 | |||
24 | Scrofula, tuberculosis | 12 | |||
25 | Other zymotic diseases | 16 | 58 | Diseases of urinary system | 30 |
26 | Thrush | ... | 59 | Diseases of generative system | 27 |
27 | Worms and other parasitic diseases | 1 | 60 | Accidents of childbirth | 25 |
61 | Diseases of locomotive system | 206 | |||
28 | Starvation, want of breast-milk | 4 | |||
62 | Diseases of integumentary | ||||
29 | Alcoholism | 14 | system | 131 | |
63 | Fracture and contusion | 26 | |||
30 | Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart | 30 | 64 | Gun shot wounds | |
65 | Cut, stab | 1 | |||
31 | Rheumatism | 296 | |||
66 | Burns or scalds | 5 | |||
32 | Gout | 94 | 67 | Poison | 4 |
33 | Rickets | 6 | 68 | Drowning | ... |
34 | Cancer | 43 | 69 | Suffocation | ... |
35 | Other constitutional diseases | 39 | 70 | Otherwise | 73 |
36 | Premature birth | 1 | 71 __ | Other causes | 274 |