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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Whitechapel 1893

The annual report on the sanitary condition of the Whitechapel District, (with vital and other statistics), for the year 1893 (consisting of 52 weeks) being the tenth annual report

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Table: Table H.—DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS' ANALYSIS OF CASES FOR 1893.

Table H.—DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS' ANALYSIS OF CASES FOR 1893.

Diseases.1 st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.Diseases.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.
All Causes1562123313661487564840 Apoplexy2.........2
41 Epilepsy22102l6
42 Convulsions1......12
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.43 Other diseases of brain 1 and nervous system48565854216
1 Small PoxVaccinated...............44 Diseases of organs of special sense221624870
Unvaccinat'd...............
No statement92......11
2 Measles31011630
3 Scarlet fever...22083045 Diseases of circulatory system24184030112
4 Typhus...............
5 Relapsing fever...............
6 Influenza7534466622146 Croup.........11I
7 Whooping cough......11247 Bronchitis1549989163505
8 Diphtheria133748 Pneumonia9671133
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever49 Pleurisy933520
...............50 Other respiratory diseases29013983161673
10 Enteric fever...............
11 Simple cholera...............51 Dentition333...9
12 Diarrhœa, dysentery1217591810652 Quinzy, sore throat1911332285
13 Remittent fever...............53 Enteritis...............
14 Hydrophobia...............54 Peritonitis...............
15 Glanders...............55 Diseases of liver333110
16 Cow pox and effe&s of vaccination...............56 Other diseases of diges- tive system7066736l270
17 Venereal affections2221231177
18 Erysipelas85682757 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands885728
19 Pyaemia and septicaemia...............
20 Puerperal fever...............
21 Other zymotic diseases34......758 Diseases of urinary system27333825123
22 Thrush...............
23 Worms and other para- sitic diseases...122559 Diseases of generative system65556775262
24 Starvation, want of breast-milk103382460 Accidents of childbirth...............
25 Alcoholism271032261 Diseases of locomotive system151141155170617
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart
...............62 Diseases of integumentary system79957765316
27 Rheumatism141106124130501
28 Gout61512740
29 Rickets......112VIOLENCE.— Accident
30 Cancer214...7
31 Tabes mesenterica...141663 Fracture and contusion36351442147
32 Tubercular meningitis...............64 Gun shot wounds...1......1
33 Phthisis11824165965 Cut, stab22116
34 Scrofula, tuberculosis......1...166 Burn or scald313411
35 Other constitutnl.disease21381467 Poison145616
68 Drowning...............
36 Premature birth...............69 Suffocation...............
37 Atelectasis...............70 Otherwise1.........1
38 Congenital malformation...............71 Other causes220195196270881
39 Old age632516