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 Stepney]
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TABLE III.—Causes of, and Ages at Death during the year 1912.
Enteric fever | 9 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | .. | 8 |
Small pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Measles | 172 | 32 | 90 | 47 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 37 |
Scarlet fever | 14 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Whooping-cough | 90 | 51 | 25 | 12 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 38 |
Diphtheria and croup | 25 | .. | 10 | 8 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 20 |
Influenza | 31 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 13 | 15 | 12 |
Erysipelas | 4 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
Phthisis (pulmonary tuberculosis) | 433 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 36 | 189 | 159 | 29 | 218 |
Tuberculous meningitis | 55 | 9 | 10 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 80 |
Other tuberculous diseases | 50 | 11 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 84 |
Cancer, malignant disease | 232 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 6 | 40 | 114 | 69 | 206 |
Rheumatic fever | 10 | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 3 | .. | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Meningitis.. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 51 |
Organic Heart Disease | 323 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 18 | 63 | 125 | 86 | 156 |
Bronchitis | 384 | 46 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 131 | 166 | 164 |
Pneumonia (all forms) | 571 | 138 | 105 | 46 | 12 | 9 | 64 | 134 | 63 | 309 |
Other diseases of respiratory organs | 20 | 4 | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 23 |
Diarrhoea and enteritis | 178 | 156 | 16 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 127 |
Appendicitis and typhlitis | 11 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 47 |
Cirrhosis of liver | 27 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 17 | 5 | 17 |
Alcoholism | 7 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
Nephritis and bright's disease | 124 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 | 23 | 70 | 23 | 100 |
Puerperal fever. | 13 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 10 | .. | .. | 30 |
Other accidents and diseases of pregnancy and parturition | 26 | 16 | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 6 | .. | .. | 16 |
Congenital debility and malformation, including premature birth | 357 | 356 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 126 |
Violent deaths, excluding suicide | 200 | 40 | 5 | 12 | .. | 16 | 25 | 43 | 38 | 131 |
Suicides | 23 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 3 |
Other defined diseases | 819 | 58 | 20 | 17 | 24 | 32 | 101 | 239 | 328 | 580 |
Diseases ill-defined or unknown | 34 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 2 | .. | 2 | 3 | 1 | 19 |
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