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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Fulham 1897

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1897

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CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.Total under 5Total all AgesAverage Total all Ages 1893—96 allowing for increase of pop ulation.
0—11—55-1515—2525—3535-4545-5555—6565—7575—85Over 85
Pyæmia, Septicaemia1.........111...1......154
Puerperal Fever.........242..................87
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases..........................................
Worms, Hyatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases..........................................
III.—Dietetic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk—Starvation.......................................1
Scurvy1..............................111
Chronic Alcoholism...............24...............67
Delirium Tremens.......................................2
IV. Constitutional Diseases. Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart...1131631.........11611
Rheumatism........................11......23
Gout...............1...2............32
Rickets22...........................4411
Cancer, Malignant Disease1.........1132825155118991
Tabes Mesenterica1921........................212216
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus1011311..................212634
Phthisis161118425731135......7184182
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula64711..................101949
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis...1...........................112
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia...1...111......11...164
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus............1......33.........78
Other Constitutional Diseases..........................................