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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ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the Borough
Diseases. | Diseases. | ||
---|---|---|---|
All Causes | 5,445 | 37 Atelectasis | .. |
38 Congenital malformations | .. | ||
1 Small-pox | .. | 39 Old age | 187 |
40 Apoplexy | 6 | ||
2 Measles | 270 | 41 Epilepsy | 26 |
3 Scarlet Fever . . | 18 | 42 Convulsions | 7 |
-1 Typhus | .. | 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 282 |
5 Relapsing- fever | .. | ||
6 Influenza | 67 | ||
44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 27 | ||
7 Whooping Cough | 88 | ||
8 Diphtheria | 6 | ||
45 Diseases of circulatory system | 212 | ||
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever | 8 | ||
46 Laryngitis | 8 | ||
10 Enteric fever | 2 | ||
47 Bronchitis | 1176 | ||
11 Simple cholera | .. | ||
48 Pneumonia | 93 | ||
12 Diarrhcea, dysentery | 108 | ||
4 9 Pleurisy | 35 | ||
13 Remittent fever | .. | ||
50 Other respiratory diseases | 32 | ||
14 Hydrophobia | .. | ||
15 Glanders | .. | 51 Dentition | 10 |
16 Cow pox and Effects of vaccination | .. | 52 Quinsy, sore throat | 55 |
53 Enteritis | 60 | ||
17 Venereal affections | 35 | ||
54 Peritonitis | 4 | ||
18 Erysipelas | 23 | 55 Diseases of liver | 24 |
19 Pyeemia and septicaemia | 2 | 56 Other diseases of digestive system | 535 |
20 Puerperal fever | 4 | ||
21 Tabes mesenterica | 1 | ||
57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 10 | ||
22 Tuberculous meningitis | .. | ||
23 Phthisis | 208 | ||
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis | 33 | 58 Diseases of urinary system | 42 |
25 Other zymotic diseases | 50 | 59 Diseases of the generative system | 34 |
26 Thrush | .. | ||
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | 5 | 60 Accidents of childbirth | 24 |
61 Diseases of locomotive system | 263 | ||
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk | 1 | ||
62 Diseases of integumentary system | 236 | ||
29 Alcoholism | 13 | ||
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart | 55 | 63 Fracture and contusion | 32 |
64 Gun shot wounds | |||
31 Rheumatism | 398 | 65 Cut, stab | 1 |
32 Gout | 100 | 66 Burns or scalds | 5 |
33 Rickets | 9 | 67 Poison | 4 |
34 Cancer | 37 | 68 Drowning | .. |
35 Other constitutional diseases | 34 | 69 Suffocation | .. |
70 Otherwise | 62 | ||
36 Premature birth | 3 | 71 Other causes | 377 |