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Shoreditch 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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TABLE VIII.

ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the Borough during the Year ending December 31 st, 1909.

Diseases.Diseases.
All Causes 5,26137 Atelectasis
38 Congenital malformations
39 Old age 155
1 Small-pox40 Apoplexy 8
2 Measles 19841 Epilepsy 38
3 Scarlet Fever 1142 Convulsions 3
4 Typhus43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system 233
5 Relapsing fever
6 Influenza 130
44 Diseases of organs of special sense 29
7 Whooping Cough 130
8 Diphtheria 4
9 Simple, continued and ill- defined fever 845 Diseases of circulatory system 202
46 Laryngitis 7
10 Enteric fever 5
47 Bronchitis 1279
11 Simple cholera
48 Pneumonia 102
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery 104
49 Pleurisy 30
13 Remittent fever
50 Other respiratory diseases 26
14 Hydrophobia
15 Glanders
51 Dentition 20
16 Cow pox and Effects of vaccination
52 Quinsy, sore throat 57
53 Enteritis 75
17 Venereal affections 38
54 Peritonitis 2
18 Erysipelas 46
55 Diseases of liver 26
19 Pyaemia and septicæmia 6
56 Other diseases of digestive system 449
20 Puerperal fever 6
21 Tabes mesenterica
57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands 17
22 Tuberculous meningitis 1
23 Phthisis 190
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis 40
58 Diseases of urinary system 58
25 Other zymotic diseases 28
26 Thrush59 Diseases of the generative system 52
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases 160 Accidents of childbirth 25
61 Diseases of locomotive system 240
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk 4
62 Diseases of integumentary system 177
29 Alcoholism 4
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart 4763 Fracture and contusion 30
64 Gun shot wounds
65 Cut, stab 1
31 Rheumatism 355
66 Burns or scalds 7
32 Gout 104
67 Poison 4
33 Rickets 1
68 Drowning
34 Cancer 36
69 Suffocation
35 Other constitutional diseases 36
70 Otherwise 53
36 Premature birth 271 Other causes 322