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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Whitechapel 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: T ableH— DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1886.

T ableH— DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1886.

Causes of Death.1 st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.Causes of Death.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.
All causes465328420411162444 Diseases of organs of special sense.........11
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1 Small PoxVaccinated...............45 Diseases of circulatory system3516172894
Unvaccin't'd...............
No statement...............
2 Measles3419204646 Croup638623
3 Scarlet Fever...512522
47 Bronchitis120353061246
4 Typhus......1...1
48 Pneumonia50382735150
5 Relapsing fever...............
49 Pleurisy211...4
6 Influenza...............
50 Other respiratory dis'es10481032
7 Whooping cough2215845
8 Diphtheria2...681651 Dentition367117
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever......1...1
52 Quinzy, sore throat...2......2
53 Enteritis...............
10 Enteric fever...13211
54 Peritonitis1...225
11 Simple cholera......1...1
55 Diseases of liver244717
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery...751365
56 Other diseases of digestive system7913635
13 Remittant fever...............
14 Hydrophobia...............
15 Glanders...............57 Diseases of lymphatic syst'm& ductless glands...............
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination...............
17 Venereal affections43731758 Diseases of urinary sys'm101212943
18 Erysipelas...2...13
19 Pyaemia and Septicaemia......24659 Diseases, generative system12216
20 Puerperal fever.........11
21 Other Zymotic diseases...............
60 Accidents at childbirth21...25
22 Thrush...............
23 Worms and other Parasitic diseases...............61 Diseases of locomotive system1......23
24 Starvation, want of breast milk.........1162 Diseases of integumentary system144312
25 Alcoholism...1......1
VIOLENT DEATHS.
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart......1...1
Accident. 63 Fracture and contusion..796224
27 Rheumatism......123
64 Gun-shot wounds...............
28 Gout1...1...265 Cut, stab.........11
29 Rickets2i1...466 Burn and scald5......16
30 Cancer6771030
67 Poison...13...4
31 Tabes Mesenterica449623
68 Drowning...11...2
32 Tubercular Meningitis3210520
69 Suffocation325212
33 Phthisis362s2338122
70 Otherwise...2......2
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis359421
Homicide. 71 Murder & manslaughter...............
35 Other constitut'l diseas's25233341120
36 Premature birth4104422
37 Atelectasis...............Suicide. 72 Gun-shot wounds...............
38 Congenital malformatns................
39 Old age141011285973 Cut, stab11......2
74 Poison1...1...2
40 Apoplexy757625
75 Drowning...............
41 Epilepsy2...316
76 Hanging............
42 Convulsions1415141154
77 Otherwise1.........1
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system33302427100
78 Other causes2.........2