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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TABLE VII.
ANALYSIS of the C ases T reated by tiik D istrict M edical O fficers of the B orough
Diseases. | Diseases. | ||
---|---|---|---|
All Causes | 5,209 | 37 Atelectasis | .. |
38 Congenital malformations | .. | ||
39 Old age | 154 | ||
1 Small-pox | .. | 40 Apoplexy | 8 |
2 Measles | 213 | 41 Epilepsy | 43 |
3 Scarlet Fever | 13 | 42 Convulsions | 4 |
4 Typhus | .. | 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 266 |
5 Relapsing fever | .. | ||
6 Influenza | 56 | ||
7 Whooping Cough | 46 | 44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 52 |
8 Diphtheria | 2 | ||
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever | 8 | 45 Diseases of circulatory system | 183 |
10 Enteric fever | 3 | 46 Laryngitis | 7 |
11 Simple cholera | .. | 47 Bronchitis | 1,303 |
12 Diarrhœa, dysentery | 183 | 48 Pneumonia | 97 |
13 Remittent fever | .. | 49 Pleurisy | 26 |
14 Hydrophobia | .. | 50 Other respiratory diseases | 25 |
15 Glanders | .. | 51 Dentition | 9 |
16 Cow pox and Effects of vaccination | .. | 52 Quinsy, sore throat | 54 |
53 Enteritis | 58 | ||
17 Venereal affections | 35 | 54 Peritonitis | 3 |
18 Erysipelas | 30 | 55 Diseases of liver | 24 |
19 Pyaemia and septicaemia | 4 | 56 Other diseases of digestive system | 398 |
20 Puerperal fever | .. | ||
21 Tabes mesenterica | .. | ||
22 Tuberculous meningitis | 3 | 57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 18 |
23 Phthisis | 264 | ||
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis | 25 | 58 Diseases of urinary system | 50 |
25 Other zymotic diseases | 39 | ||
59 Diseases of the generative system | 34 | ||
26 Thrush | .. | ||
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | 4 | 60 Accidents of childbirth | 13 |
61 Diseases of locomotive system | 240 | ||
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk | .. | 62 Diseases of integumentary system | 163 |
29 Alcoholism | 9 | ||
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart | 53 | 63 Fracture and contusion | 35 |
64 Gun shot wounds | .. | ||
31 Rheumatism | 408 | 65 Cut, stab | 3 |
32 Gout | 95 | 66 Burns or scalds | 9 |
33 Rickets | 6 | 67 Poison | 1 |
34 Cancer | 31 | 68 Drowning | .. |
35 Other constitutional diseases | 17 | 69 Suffocation | . . |
70 Otherwise | 55 | ||
36 Premature birth | 1 | 71 Other causes | 326 |