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 East Ham]
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Pneumonia | 10 |
Heart Diseases | 7 |
Convulsions | 6 |
Suicides | 6 |
Apoplexy | 5 |
Acute Peritonitis | 4 |
Shock | 3 |
Diarrhœa | 3 |
Bronchitis | 3 |
*Murder | 3 |
Want of proper expansion of lungs at birth | 2 |
Tetanus | 2 |
Exhaustion | 2 |
Spasm of the Glottis | 1 |
Croup | 1 |
Misadventure | 1 |
Paralysis | 1 |
Septic Poisoning | 1 |
Rupture of Blood Vessel on Brain | 1 |
Wasting | 1 |
Concussion of Brain | 1 |
Want of Vitality | 1 |
HÅ“morrhage | 1 |
Found Dead | 1 |
Alcoholism | 1 |
Cancer | 1 |
Want of Proper Attention at Birth | 1 |
Pleurisy | 1 |
Acute Intussusception of Bowel | 1 |
Erysipelas | 1 |
Inanition | 1 |
Opium Poisoning | 1 |
Drowning | 1 |
Total | 115 |
*Two of these were Children found in railway carriages at the terminus,
and the other a Lascar seaman murdered by another Lascar on board a
ship at the Royal Albert Dock.
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