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Bethnal Green 1888

[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 upwds.
1 Zymotic Diseases (continued).
Diphtheria..4111................4152
Simple Continued Fever..1..................11
Enteric or Typhoid Fever..........3............20
Other Miasmatic Diseases..........................
2. Diarrheal Diseases.
Simple Cholera..............1........1
Diarrhœa, Dysentery3622..........43....5866
3. Malarial Diseases...........................
..........................
Remittent Fever........................
4. Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Vaccination........................
Other Diseases {e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders)..........................
5. Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis1......9............19
Gonorrhoea, Stricture..........................
6. Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas11......21..1....26
Pyœmia, Septiccemia21......11........35
Puerperal Fever......2..1............4
II.—Parasitic Diseases
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases1....................11
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasites........................v
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation2........113......27
Scurvy..........................
Chronic Alcoholism..........111..1....4
Delirium Tremens........1..............1