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Southwark 1894

Annual report for 1894 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health—1894.

Table: T able III.Corrected Return of Cause of Death of Infants under One Year in the Registration Sub-Districts during the 52 Weeks ending December 31st, 1894.

T able III.

Corrected Return of Cause of Death of Infants under One Year in the Registration Sub-Districts during the 52 Weeks ending December 31st, 1894.

CAUSE OP DEATH.borough roadlondon roadKent Road.
I.-Specific. Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases. 1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small-pox---
Measles11-
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)---
Diphtheria--____-
Whooping-Cough12710
Typhus Fever---
Enteric or Typhoid Fever---
Simple Continued and Ill-defined Fever---
Other Miasmatic Diseases---
2.—Diarrheal Diseases.
Simple Cholera---
Diarrhcea, Dysentery2810l6
3.—Malarial Diseases.
e.g., RemittentTever, Agu'eJ---
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and effects of Vaccination---
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, and Splenic Fever)---
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis---
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra---
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas---
Pyaemia, Septicaemia---
Puerperal Fever---
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush---
Hydatids and other Animal Parasitic Diseases---
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Starvation and Want of Breast Milk---
Scurvy---
Chronic Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens---
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.---
Rheumatic Fevel- and Rheumatism of the Heart.---
Rheumatism---
Gout---
Rickets-1-
Cancer, Malignant Disease---
Tabes Mesenterica523
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus642
Phthisis---
Other Tubercular and Scrofulous Diseases5"65
Purpura, Hemorrhagic Diathesis---
Ansemia, Chlorosis, Leucoeythtemia---
Glycosuria, Diabetes, Mellitus---
Other Constitutional Diseases---
Carried forward573136