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Fulham 1899

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 30th, 1899

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CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.Total under 5Total all Ages.Average Total all Ages 1893—98 allowing for increased population.
0-11-55-1515—2525—3535-4545—5555—6565—7575-85Over 85
1.—Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small-pox..........................0.5
Measles10526................626884
Scarlet Fever2237..1............253335
Diphtheria23521..1............375988
Whooping Cough28251................535470
Typhus Fever..........5................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever....26115..1........2513
Simple Continued or 111-defined Fever................1......10.2
Influenza2..1215117104624928
Tetanus1....................110.3
Other Miasmatic Diseases..2..................220.1
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera31......3..1......450.5
Diarrhœa, Dysentery15216....133125..168183157
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever............................
Ague............................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox, Effects of Vaccination............................
Hydrophobia............................
Glanders..........................0.3
Splenic Fever............................
5. — Venereal Diseases.. c.
Syphilis12........1..1......121416
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethral..........1..11......32
6-Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas4........11....1..477
Pyæmia Septicæmia1..1......1........134
Puerperal Fever......212............57
II.—Parasitic Diseases. Thrush
Thrush............................
Hydatids, Worms, &c......1................10.0
III.—Dietetic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation..........................0.5
Scurvy..........................0.5
Chronic Alcoholism..........11..........27
Delirium Tremens........21....1......42
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever..11111..........1512
Rheumatism..................11..23
Gout............2....1....32
Rickets43..................7710
Cancer, Malignant Disease121..2918241571380102
Tabes Mesenterica96..................151521
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus81561..............233036