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 Whitechapel]
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Table 1. — CLASSIFICATION OF CAUSE OF DEATH.
Class of Disease. | Percentage of Deaths to Total Deaths. | |
---|---|---|
London includ'g Whitechapel | Whitechapel. District. | |
Zymotic Diseases (as named in the Registrar-General's Weekly Return) | 14.46 | 12.98 |
Parasitic Diseases | 0.12 | 0.13 |
Privation and Alcoholism | 0.63 | 0.52 |
Constitutional Diseases | 20.42 | 22.63 |
Premature Birth and Old Age | 6.75 | 7.24 |
Diseases of Nervous System | 11.62 | 10.95 |
,, Organs of Special Sense | 0.15 | 0.00 |
,, Circulatory System | 8.53 | 7.63 |
,, Respiratory | 19.90 | 22.89 |
,, Digestive | 5.69 | 6.45 |
Lymphatic „ | 0.14 | 0.06 |
Urinary „ | 2.66 | 2.80 |
,, Generative „ | 0.33 | 0.26 |
Accidents of Childbirth „ | 0.21 | 0.39 |
Diseases of Locomotive System | 0.49 | 0.13 |
„ Integumentary „ | 0.28 | 0.52 |
Violent Deaths—Accident | 3.27 | 3.19 |
Homicide | 0.10 | 0.06 |
Suicide | 0.49 | 0.45 |
Execution | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Other Causes | 3.67 | 0.06 |
Table L.— VACCINATION STATISTICS.
Certificates of successful Vaccination registered by Mr. W. M. Sherman, Vaccination Officer: | |||
Born in the Whitechapel Union | 2359 | ||
Resident in the Union but born elsewhere | 275 | ||
Returned as "Insusceptible" | 5 | ||
Total | 2639 | ||
Public Vaccinator's Statistics: | |||
Primary | By Public Vaccinator | 1860 | |
By Infirmary Medical Superintendent | 104 | ||
1964 | |||
Re-Vaccination | By Public Vaccinator | 2 | |
By Infirmary Medical Superintendent | 0 | ||
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