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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 1887

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: TABLE M.— WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1887..

TABLE M.— WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1887..

Causes of Death.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.Causes of Death.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.
All causes437336395434160244 Diseases of organs of special sense...1......1
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1 Small PoxVaccinated...............45 Diseases of circulatory system28241742111
Unvaccin't'd...............
No statement...............
2 Measles2716635246 Croup894223
3 Scarlet Fever3310112747 Bronchitis79322560196
4 Typhus...............48 Pneumonia33211635105
5 Relapsing fever...............49 Pleurisy...1168
6 Influenza50 Other respiratory dis'es71391342
7 Whooping cough618
8 Diphtheria12j3651 Dentition101212640
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever1152 Quinzy, sore throat...............
53 Enteritis...............
10 Enteric fever3454 Peritonitis...22......
11 Simple cholera11
12 Diarrhœa, dysentery486448056 Other diseases of digestive system1415151054
13 Remittent fever...............
14 Hydrophobia...............
15 Glanders...............
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination...............57 Diseases of lymphatic syst'm& ductless glands11
17 Venereal affections331411
18 Erysipelas ..234658 Diseases of urinary sys'm1212111146
19 Pyaemia and Septicaemia......3...359 Diseases, generative sys tem3...137
20 Puerperal fever1............1
21 Other Zymotic diseases..........11jj
22 Thrush.........1160 Accidents at childbirth21238
23 Worms and other Parasitic diseases...............61 Diseases of locomotive system .......................1...23
24 Starvation, want of breast milk1......1262 Diseases of integumen tary system...1214
25 Alcoholism...13...4
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart...1...34VIOLENT DEATHS.
Accident.
63 Fracture and contusion.742417
27 Rheumatism ...64 Gun-shot wounds...............
28 Gout.2365 Cut, stab...............
29 Rickets...............66 Burn and scald114511
3° Cancer.. .67 Poison............
*34 *68 Drowing11...24
15-2969 Suffocation24Suffocation6424
2351069 Suffocation24...6434
43364U38±5970 Otherwise.........33
35 Other constitute diseas's251735D 24*4 ioiHomicide.
36 Premature birth .116552771 Murder & manslaughter...............
37 Atele&asis .Suicide.
38 Congenital malformatns.1172 Gun-shot wounds...............
151813135973 Cut, stab...............
4° Apoplexy74 Poison.........11
41 EpilepsyJ975 Drowning1.........1
42 Convulsions91310205276 Hanging...............
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system3224252410577 Otherwise...............
78 Other causes......123