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Shoreditch 1911

[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 during the Year ending December 31st,1911.

Diseases.Diseases.
All Causes5,20937 Atelectasis..
38 Congenital malformations..
39 Old age154
1 Small-pox..40 Apoplexy8
2 Measles21341 Epilepsy43
3 Scarlet Fever1342 Convulsions4
4 Typhus..43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system266
5 Relapsing fever..
6 Influenza56
7 Whooping Cough4644 Diseases of organs of special sense52
8 Diphtheria2
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever845 Diseases of circulatory system183
10 Enteric fever346 Laryngitis7
11 Simple cholera..47 Bronchitis1,303
12 Diarrhœa, dysentery18348 Pneumonia97
13 Remittent fever..49 Pleurisy26
14 Hydrophobia..50 Other respiratory diseases25
15 Glanders..51 Dentition9
16 Cow pox and Effects of vaccination..52 Quinsy, sore throat54
53 Enteritis58
17 Venereal affections3554 Peritonitis3
18 Erysipelas3055 Diseases of liver24
19 Pyaemia and septicaemia456 Other diseases of digestive system398
20 Puerperal fever..
21 Tabes mesenterica..
22 Tuberculous meningitis357 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands18
23 Phthisis264
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis2558 Diseases of urinary system50
25 Other zymotic diseases39
59 Diseases of the generative system34
26 Thrush..
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases460 Accidents of childbirth13
61 Diseases of locomotive system240
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk..62 Diseases of integumentary system163
29 Alcoholism9
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart5363 Fracture and contusion35
64 Gun shot wounds..
31 Rheumatism40865 Cut, stab3
32 Gout9566 Burns or scalds9
33 Rickets667 Poison1
34 Cancer3168 Drowning..
35 Other constitutional diseases1769 Suffocation. .
70 Otherwise55
36 Premature birth171 Other causes326