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 Lewisham]
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DEATHS DURING THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE
YEAR 1865.
CLASESS OF
DISEASE.
CAU8E8 OF DEATH.
AGES AT DEATH.
Total.
Males.
Females.
Under 1
year.
Under 10.
Under 20.
20 and
under 40.
40 and
under 60.
60 and
under 80.
80 End
upwards.
i.
zymotic
diseases.
Order1 -Miasmatic
Small-pox
2
2
—
1
-
-
-
5
3
2
Measles
4
4
1
—
-
-
-
9
5
4
Scarlatina(Scarlet Fever)
i
9
1
2
1
-
-
13
7
0
Diptheria
1
3
1
1
1
-
-
/
3
4
Croup
—
5
3
—
-
—
—
8
4
7
4
7
Hooping Cough
9
5
-
-
-
-
-
16
8
2
Typhus Fever
-
1
1
4
2
1
-
5
3
Erysipelas (Rose)
2
-
-
-
1
2
-
3
0
3
Puerperal Fever(Metria)
-
—
3
-
Influenza
—
—
1
1
—
1
-
3
l
Dysentery
-
—
—
—-
1
1
-
2
16
l
Diarrhæa(Bowel Complant)
27
1
-
1
-
3
-
3
2
1
Rheumatism
-
-
-
-
-
1
--
-
-
-
Pyæmia
—
-
—
1
-
-
-
1
1
0
Order 2. - Enthetic
Syphillis
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
1
1
0
Order 3.- Dietic
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
—
—
1
-
—
—
1
0
1
Alcoholism
Intemperance
-
-
1
-
1
-
-
2
2
0
D.Tremens
Order—Parasitic.
Thrush
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
4
2
II
constitutional
diseases
Order 1. Diathetic
8
3
5
Dropsey
—
1
1
3
10
4
6
Cancer
—
3
2
1
Mortification
—
-
—"
1
z
2
n
2
Gout
——
-
1
1
Order 2.Tubercular.
-
-
1
-
1
-
-
2
2
0
Scrofula
7-
2
-
-
-
-
-
9
7
2
Tabes Mestrica
-
4
7
30
11
3
-
55
28
27
Phthisis (Comumption)
—
4
Hydrorephalus (Water on the
Brain)
6
6
-
—
—
—
5
12
6
6
iii.
local
disea8es.
Order 1.—Ferrous System.
1
q
2
7
Cephalitis
3
1
11
2
911
6
15
Apoplexy
I
1
1
11
3
15
7
8
Palsy(Parlysis)
1
1
1
3
0
3
Epilepsy
18
4
I
?,
I
26
1 14
12
Convulsions
1
3
2
__
3
6
Brain Disease,&c
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Order 2.—Organs of Circulation.
-
-
-
-
-
12
-
-
16
16
Heart Diseases, &c,
1
1
2
5
11
-
1
1
0
Aneurism
-
-
-
--
1
-
Order 3.—Respiratory
Organs.
2
2
1
90
1
14
Leryngitis
-
-
-
-
4
20
1
-
-
-
Bronchitis
—
1
2
1
4
1
3
Pleurisy
7
1
1
2
3
—
31
17
o
14
2
Pneumonia
8
—
2
—
2
Asthma
Carried forward
113
70
25
63
54
86
10
421
209
21