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Shoreditch 1911

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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(g) Under this heading have been included deaths
registered as due to Epidemic Diarrhoea, Epidemic
Enteritis, Infective Enteritis, Zymotic Enteritis,
Summer Diarrhoea, Choleraic Diarrhoea, Cholera
(other than Asiatic), Gastro-Enteritis, Gastro-Intestinal
Catarrh, Muco-Enteritis, Colitis, &c. Deaths from
Diarrhoea secondary to some other well-defined
disease have been included under the latter.
(h) Under this heading have been included deaths from
Delirium Tremens, acute and chronic alcoholism,
&c., but not those certified as due to organic disease
attributed to alcoholism.
(i) Under " Puerperal Fever " have been included deaths
under such headings as Pyaemia, Septicaemia,
Sapraemia, Pelvic Peritonitis, Peri- and Endo-Metritis
occurring in the Puerperium.
(j) Under this heading have been included also deaths
from Atrophy and Marasmus of Infants, and want
of Breast-Milk, but not from Atelectasis.
NOTES TO TABLE IV.
(b) Under Abdominal Tuberculosis have been included
deaths from Tuberculous Peritonitis and Enteritis
and from Tabes Mesenterica.
(c) Want of Breast-Milk has been included under Atrophy
and Debility.
(d) For references to the meaning of any other headings,
see notes to Table III.