London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Bethnal Green 1883

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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TABLE III. (continued).

CAUSE OF DEATH.AGES.Total under 5 years.Total.
0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 and upwards
I.—Zymotic Diseases (continued).
Diphtheria292................1113
Simple Continued Fever............2..........2
Enteric or Typhoid Fever..1511612........127
Other Miasmatic Diseases1....................11
2. Diarrhœl Diseases.
Simple Cholera22....1....1......46
Diarrhœ, Dysentery47252....1..222..7281
3. Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever..........................
Ague..........................
4. Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Vaccination..........................
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders)..1..................11
5. Venereal Diseases.
Syphillis111....1....1......1214
Gonorrhœa, Stricture..........................
6. Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas32....1....12....510
Pytemia, Septicœia..............11......2
Puerperal Fever......11..............2
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases31..................44
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasites........2........1....3
III.—Dietic Diseases
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation51......1....1....68
Scurvy..........................
Chronic Alcoholism........3..1..........4
Delirium Tremens........111..........3