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 West Ham]
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West Ham Deaths Registered during 1897| at several Age Periods, from different causes.
All Ages. | 0-1 | 1-5 | 5-20 | 20-40 | 40-60 | 60-80 | 80 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | | Vaccinated | ||||||||
U nvaccinated | |||||||||
(No Statement | |||||||||
Measles | 137 | 28 | 102 | 6 | — | 1 | |||
Scarlet Fever | 29 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 3 | ||||
Typhus | |||||||||
Relapsing Fever | |||||||||
Influenza | 34 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 14 | |||
Whooping Cough | 89 | 41 | 45 | 3 | |||||
Diphtheria | 99 | 3 | 60 | 36 | |||||
Simple Continued Fever | |||||||||
Enteric Fever | 51 | — | 3 | 17 | 22 | 8 | 1 | ||
Cholera and Choleraic | |||||||||
Diarrhoea | 11 | 7 | 3 | — | — | 1 | |||
Diarrhoea, Dysentery | 507 | 379 | 99 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 3 | |
Remittent Fever | |||||||||
Hydrophobia | |||||||||
Glanders | |||||||||
Cowpox and effects of Vaccination | |||||||||
Venereal Affections | 12 | 9 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | ||
Erysipelas | 13 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
Pyaemia and Septicae | 6 | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Puerperal Fever | 7 | — | — | 1 | 6 | ||||
Other Zymotic Disease | 7 | — | 1 | — | 4 | 2 | |||
Thrush | |||||||||
Worms and other Parasitic | |||||||||
Diseases | |||||||||
Starvation, want of Breast | |||||||||
Milk | 28 | 28 | |||||||
Alcoholism | 11 | — | — | — | 4 | 6 | 1 | ||
Rheumatic Fever | 12 | ___ | _ | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
Rheumatism | 7 | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
Gout | 6 | — | — | — | — | 3 | 3 |