Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch for the year 1893
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TABLE IV.
DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS' ANALYSIS OF CASES.
Diseases. | Diseases. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
NO. | NO. | |||
All Causes | 5353 | 38 Congenital malformations | - | |
39 Old age | 161 | |||
ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | 40 Apoplexy | 17 | ||
1 Small Pox | Vaccinated | 2 | 41 Epilepsy | 26 |
Unvaccinated | - | 42 Convulsions | 10 | |
Not stated | - | 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 268 | |
2 Measles | 96 | |||
3 Scarlet fever | 83 | |||
4 Typhus | - | 44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 37 | |
5 Relapsing fever | - | |||
6 Influenza | 93 | 45 Diseases of circulatory system | 192 | |
7 Whooping Cough | 82 | |||
46 Laryngitis | 2 | |||
8 Diphtheria | 29 | 47 Bronchitis | 1288 | |
9 Simple, Continued and ill-defined fever | 36 | 48 Pneumonia | 67 | |
49 Pleurisy | 43 | |||
10 Enteric fever | 8 | 50 Other respiratory diseases | 95 | |
11 Simple Cholera | — | 51 Dentition | 26 | |
12 Diarrhœa, Dysentery | 180 | |||
13 Remittent fever | — | 52 Quinzy, sore throat | 98 | |
14 Hydrophobia | — | 53 Enteritis | 16 | |
15 Glanders | - | 54 Peritonitis | 2 | |
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination | - | 55 Diseases of liver | 10 | |
56 Other diseases of digestive system | 296 | |||
17 Venereal affections | 35 | |||
18 Erysipelas | 45 | |||
19 Pyaemia and Septicæmia | 1 | 57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 19 | |
20 Puerperal fever | - | |||
21 Tabes Mesenterica | 4 | 58 Diseases of urinary system | 51 | |
22 Tubercular Meningitis | 3 | |||
23 Phthisis | 193 | 59 Diseases of generative system | 62 | |
24 Scrofula, Tuberculosis | 15 | |||
25 Other Zymotic diseases | 2 | 60 Accidents of child-birth | 27 | |
26 Thrush | 3 | 61 Diseases of locomotive system | 171 | |
27 Worms and other Parasitic diseases | 20 | 62 Diseases of integumentary system | 119 | |
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk | 3 | VIOLENCE.—Accident. | ||
29 Alcoholism | 26 | |||
30 Rheumatic fever andRheuma-tism of heart | 76 | 63 Fracture and contusion | 40 | |
64 Gun shot wounds | - | |||
31 Rheumatism | 274 | 65 Cut, stab | - | |
32 Gout | 52 | 66 Burn or scald | 6 | |
33 Rickets | 6 | 67 Poison | 3 | |
34 Cancer | 24 | 68 Drowning | - | |
35 Other constitutional diseases | 87 | 69 Suffocation | - | |
36 Premature birth | - | 70 Otherwise | 62 | |
37 Atelectasis | - | 71 Other causes | 661 |