Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1898 page 44 45

Fulham 1898

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1898

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CAUSES OF DEATH.	AGES.											Total under 5	Total all Ages.	Average Total all Ages 1893—97 allowing for increased population.
CAUSES OF DEATH.	0—1	1-5	5-15	15—25	25—35	35—45	45—55	55-65	65-75	75-85	Over 85	Total under 5	Total all Ages.
Specic Febrile or Zymotic Diseases.
I.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small-pox	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	0.8
Measles	21	37	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	58	59	82
Scarlet Fever	3	21	10	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	24	35	31
Diphtheria	2	32	26	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	34	61	84
Whooping Cough	15	23	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	38	39	68
Typhus Fever	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Enteric or Typhoid Fever	..	..	2	6	7	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	17	14
Simple Continued or Ill-defined Fever	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
Influenza	1	..	1	1	3	2	2	5	5	2	2	1	24	30
Tetanus	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	..
Other Miasmatic Diseases	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
2.—Diarrhæal Diseases.
Simple Cholera	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	3	..
Diarrhœa, Dysentery	150	24	1	..	..	..	2	..	4	1	..	175	182	135
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Ague	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
4.Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox, Effects of Vaccination	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Hydrophobia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Glanders	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Splenic Fever	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis	6	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	8	9	15
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra	..	..	..	1	..	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	4	1
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	3	6	6
Pyæmia Septicaemia	..	..	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	4
Puerperal Fever	..	..	..	1	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	7
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Hyatids, Worms, &c.	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
III.—Dietetic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Scurvy	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Chronic Alcoholism	..	..	..	..	1	2	1	1	..	..	..	..	5	7
Delirium Tremens	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	2
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever	1	..	5	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	7	12
Rheumatism	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	2	3
Gout	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	2
Rickets	2	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	5	10
Cancer, Malignant Disease	..	1	..	1	2	17	29	30	12	5	1	1	98	92
Tabes Mesenterica	13	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	14	14	18
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus	9	13	6	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	22	29	34