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Shoreditch 1910

[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 31st,1910.

Diseases.Diseases.
All Causes5,44537 Atelectasis..
38 Congenital malformations..
1 Small-pox..39 Old age187
40 Apoplexy6
2 Measles27041 Epilepsy26
3 Scarlet Fever . .1842 Convulsions7
-1 Typhus..43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system282
5 Relapsing- fever..
6 Influenza67
44 Diseases of organs of special sense27
7 Whooping Cough88
8 Diphtheria6
45 Diseases of circulatory system212
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever8
46 Laryngitis8
10 Enteric fever2
47 Bronchitis1176
11 Simple cholera..
48 Pneumonia93
12 Diarrhcea, dysentery108
4 9 Pleurisy35
13 Remittent fever..
50 Other respiratory diseases32
14 Hydrophobia..
15 Glanders..51 Dentition10
16 Cow pox and Effects of vaccination..52 Quinsy, sore throat55
53 Enteritis60
17 Venereal affections35
54 Peritonitis4
18 Erysipelas2355 Diseases of liver24
19 Pyeemia and septicaemia256 Other diseases of digestive system535
20 Puerperal fever4
21 Tabes mesenterica1
57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands10
22 Tuberculous meningitis..
23 Phthisis208
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis3358 Diseases of urinary system42
25 Other zymotic diseases5059 Diseases of the generative system34
26 Thrush..
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases560 Accidents of childbirth24
61 Diseases of locomotive system263
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk1
62 Diseases of integumentary system236
29 Alcoholism13
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart5563 Fracture and contusion32
64 Gun shot wounds
31 Rheumatism39865 Cut, stab1
32 Gout10066 Burns or scalds5
33 Rickets967 Poison4
34 Cancer3768 Drowning..
35 Other constitutional diseases3469 Suffocation..
70 Otherwise62
36 Premature birth371 Other causes377