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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 5Total all Ages.Average Total all Ages 1893—97 allowing for increased population.
0—11-55-1515—2525—3535—4545—5555-6565-7575-85Over 85
Specic Febrile or Zymotic Diseases.
I.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small-pox..........................0.8
Measles21371................585982
Scarlet Fever32110................243531
Diphtheria23226....1..........346184
Whooping Cough15231................383968
Typhus Fever............................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever....26711..........1714
Simple Continued or Ill-defined Fever....1..................1..
Influenza1..11322552212430
Tetanus1......................2..
Other Miasmatic Diseases............................
2.—Diarrhæal Diseases.
Simple Cholera11..................33..
Diarrhœa, Dysentery150241......2..41..175182135
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever............................
Ague............................
4.Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox, Effects of Vaccination............................
Hydrophobia............................
Glanders......1....................
Splenic Fever............................
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis62..................8915
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra......1..111........41
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas3............11....366
Pyæmia Septicaemia......1..1............24
Puerperal Fever......121............47
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush............................
Hyatids, Worms, &c.............................
III.—Dietetic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation..........................1
Scurvy..........................1
Chronic Alcoholism........1211........57
Delirium Tremens..........1............12
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever1..5....1..........1712
Rheumatism..............2........23
Gout..............1........12
Rickets23..................5510
Cancer, Malignant Disease..1..12172930125119892
Tabes Mesenterica131..................141418
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus91361..............222934