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Shoreditch 1893

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.

For the year ending 31st December, 1893.

Diseases.Diseases.
NO.NO.
All Causes535338 Congenital malformations-
39 Old age161
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.40 Apoplexy17
1 Small PoxVaccinated241 Epilepsy26
Unvaccinated-42 Convulsions10
Not stated-43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system268
2 Measles96
3 Scarlet fever83
4 Typhus-44 Diseases of organs of special sense37
5 Relapsing fever-
6 Influenza9345 Diseases of circulatory system192
7 Whooping Cough82
46 Laryngitis2
8 Diphtheria2947 Bronchitis1288
9 Simple, Continued and ill-defined fever3648 Pneumonia67
49 Pleurisy43
10 Enteric fever850 Other respiratory diseases95
11 Simple Cholera51 Dentition26
12 Diarrhœa, Dysentery180
13 Remittent fever52 Quinzy, sore throat98
14 Hydrophobia53 Enteritis16
15 Glanders-54 Peritonitis2
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination-55 Diseases of liver10
56 Other diseases of digestive system296
17 Venereal affections35
18 Erysipelas45
19 Pyaemia and Septicæmia157 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands19
20 Puerperal fever-
21 Tabes Mesenterica458 Diseases of urinary system51
22 Tubercular Meningitis3
23 Phthisis19359 Diseases of generative system62
24 Scrofula, Tuberculosis15
25 Other Zymotic diseases260 Accidents of child-birth27
26 Thrush361 Diseases of locomotive system171
27 Worms and other Parasitic diseases2062 Diseases of integumentary system119
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk3VIOLENCE.—Accident.
29 Alcoholism26
30 Rheumatic fever andRheuma-tism of heart7663 Fracture and contusion40
64 Gun shot wounds-
31 Rheumatism27465 Cut, stab-
32 Gout5266 Burn or scald6
33 Rickets667 Poison3
34 Cancer2468 Drowning-
35 Other constitutional diseases8769 Suffocation-
36 Premature birth-70 Otherwise62
37 Atelectasis-71 Other causes661