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Shoreditch 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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TABLE VI.

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES IN THE BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH, AND IN EACH WARD DURING THE YEAR ENDING

31 st DECEMBER, 1909.

N ote.—The deaths of persons not belonging to Shoreditch occurring in hospitals and other institutions in the Borough are excluded; deaths of persons 1 belonging to Shoreditch occurring in public institutions in London beyond the limits of the Borough are included.

CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.DEATHS IN EACH WARD.SEX.Total.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 10.10 to l5.15 to 20.20 to 25.25 to 85.35 to 45.45 to 55.55 to 65.65 to 75.75 to 85.85 and upwards.Moorfields.Church.Hoxton.Wenlock.Whit more.Kingsland.Haggerston.Acton.Male.Female.
1 Small PoxVaccinated................................................
Unvaccinated................................................
No statement................................................
2 Measles34867......................25281533101156562127
3 Scarlet fever..34......................3111....1167
4 Typhus fever................................................
5 Epidemic influenza3..........334145..122565..2101323
6 Whooping cough28414......................13151812834284573
7 Diphtheria, membranous croup4143....................1462512..81321
8 Enteric fever........1121....1....11....4......336
9 Asiatic cholera................................................
10 Diarrhoea, dysentery51141................1..1146618967363167
11 Epidemic or zymotic enteritis84........................52121..17512
12 Other allied diseases................................................
13 Hydrophobia................................................
14 Glanders, farcy................................................
15 Tetanus................................................
16 Anthrax, splenic fever................................................
17 Cow-pox, accidents of vaccination................................................
18 Syphilis8..........1....1......122122....5510
19 Gonorrhœa................................................
20 Phagedœna, hospital gangrene................................................
21 Erysipelas6..........11233......31253..27916
22 Puerperal fever..........1..3............2..1..1......44
23 Pyaemia, septicaemia21321..2112......1342221..11415
24 Infective endocarditis......2..12..............1..1..12..326
25 Other allied Diseases3..................1......21..1........44
26 Malarial fever................................................
27 Rheumatic fever..1..11........111....2..1..21..516
28 Rheumatism of the heart................................................
Tuberculosis : 29 Brain or meninges, acute hydrocephalus72431......1..........27376641162036
30 Larynx................................................
31 Lungs..2331113374645239....113328284018152112074194
32 Intestines, tabes mesenterica642....1................11433..15813
33 General, position undefined31212133..2........110..23434141327
34 Other forms, scrofula112..1..11............32..11....347
35 Other Infective diseases................................................
36 Thrush................................................
37 Actinomycosis........1....................1............11
38 Hydatid diseases................1................1........11
39 Scurvy......1......................1............11
40 Other diseases due to altered food................................................
41 Acute alcoholism, delirium tremens..................1........1..............11
42 Chronic alcoholism............23131....133..1....26410
43 Chronic industrial poisonings................................................
44 Other chronic poisonings................................................
45 Osteo-arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis..................11..........11........22
46 Gout..............1..1............11......2..2
47 Cancer..............9212417101516621141046374582
48 Diabetes mellitus..........12..1..1......211....1..325
49 Purpura hœmorrhagica................................................
50 Hæmophilia................................................
51 Anæmia, leucocythæmia....1..............1......1..........1112