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Shoreditch 1906

[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 during the Year ending December 31st, 1906.

Diseases.Diseases.
All Causes4,10737Atelectasis...
38Congenital malformations...
39Old age149
ISmall-pox...40Apoplexy3
2Measles9841Epilepsy22
3Scarlet fever1942Convulsions2
4Typhus...43Other diseases of brain and nervous system254
5Relapsing fever...
6Influenza110
44Diseases of organs of special sense19
7Whooping cough32
8Diphtheria5
9Simple, continued and ill-defined fever945Diseases of circulatory system185
46Laryngitis5
10Enteric fever3
11Simple cholera...47Bronchitis913
12Diarrhoea, dysentery10048Pneumonia61
13Kemittent fever...49Pleurisy22
14Hydrophobia...50Other respiratory diseases42
15Glanders...51Dentition8
16Cow pox and effects of vaccination...
52Quinzy, sore throat41
53Enteritis48
17Venereal affections29
54Peritonitis3
18Erysipelas29
55Diseases of liver28
19Pyaemia and septicemia2
56Other diseases of digestive system302
20Puerperal fever1
21Tabes mesenterica2
22Tuberculous meningitis1
57Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands8
23Phthisis194
24Scrofula, tuberculosis12
25Other zymotic diseases1658Diseases of urinary system30
26Thrush...59Diseases of generative system27
27Worms and other parasitic diseases160Accidents of childbirth25
61Diseases of locomotive system206
28Starvation, want of breast-milk4
62Diseases of integumentary
29Alcoholism14system131
63Fracture and contusion26
30Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart3064Gun shot wounds...
65Cut, stab1
31Rheumatism296
66Burns or scalds5
32Gout9467Poison4
33Rickets668Drowning...
34Cancer4369Suffocation...
35Other constitutional diseases3970Otherwise73
36Premature birth171 __Other causes274