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 1894
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TABLE XXIV.
ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the Parish
Diseases. | Diseases. | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All Causes | 4297 | 38 | Congenital malformations | - | ||
ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | 39 | Old age | 165 | |||
40 | Apoplexy | 17 | ||||
1 | Small Pox | Vaccinated | - | 41 | Epilepsy | 18 |
Unvaccinated | - | 42 | Convulsions | 3 | ||
No Statement | - | 43 | Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 138 | ||
2 | Measles | 64 | ||||
3 | Scarlet fever | 47 | 44 | Diseases of organs of special sense | 40 | |
4 | Typhus | — | ||||
5 | Relapsing fever | - | 45 | Diseases of circulatory system | 158 | |
6 | Influenza | 106 | ||||
7 | Whooping Cough | 36 | 46 | Laryngitis | 7 | |
8 | Diphtheria | 5 | 47 | Bronchitis | 966 | |
9 | Simple, Continued and ill-defined fever | 28 | 48 | Pneumonia | 52 | |
49 | Pleurisy | 22 | ||||
10 | Enteric fever | 10 | 50 | Other respiratory diseases | 45 | |
11 | Simple cholera | - | ||||
12 | Diarrhoea, Dysentry | 100 | 51 | Dentition | 18 | |
13 | Remittent fever | — | 52 | Quinzy, sore throat | 30 | |
14 | Hydrophobia | — | 53 | Enteritis | 11 | |
15 | Glanders | — | 54 | Peritonitis | 3 | |
16 | Cow pox and effects of vaccination | - | 55 | Diseases of liver | 22 | |
56 | Other diseases of digestive system | 251 | ||||
17 | Venereal affections | 37 | ||||
18 | Erysipelas | 28 | 57 | Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 5 | |
19 | Pyaemia and Septicaemia | 1 | ||||
20 | Puerperal fever | - | ||||
21 | Tabes Mesenterica | - | 58 | Diseases of urinary system | 64 | |
22 | Tubercular Meningitis | - | ||||
23 | Phthisis | 206 | 59 | Diseases of generative system | 56 | |
24 | Scrofula, Tuberculosis | 17 | ||||
25 | Other Zymotic diseases | 55 | 60 | Accidents of childbirth | 22 | |
26 | Thrush | - | 61 | Diseases of locomotive system | 174 | |
27 | Worms and other parasitic diseases | 14 | ||||
62 | Diseases of integumentary system | 69 | ||||
28 | Starvation,want of breast-milk | - | ||||
29 | Alcoholism | 22 | VIOLENCE.—Accident. | |||
30 | Rheumatic fever and Rheumatism of heart | 22 | 63 | Fracture and contusion | 38 | |
64 | Gun shot wounds | — | ||||
31 | Rheumatism | 227 | 65 | Cut, stab | 3 | |
32 | Gout | 68 | 66 | Burn or scald | 5 | |
83 | Rickets | 1 | 67 | Poison | 13 | |
34 | Cancer | 27 | 68 | Drowning | — | |
35 | Other constitutional diseases | 63 | 69 | Suffocatfon | — | |
36 | Premature birth | - | 70 | Otherwise | 46 | |
37 | Atelectasis | — | 71 | Other Causes | 652 |