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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 N.—METROPOLITAN DEATHS FOR THE YEAR 1893.

E stimated population to the middle of the year = 4 ,305,55I. D eath-rate=2 I 2 per 1000.

Causes of Death.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4 th Quar.Total.Causes of Death.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.
All Causes236932088222009249519153540 Apoplexy6115064915922200
41 Epilepsy10099103101403
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.42 Convulsions5035166135622194
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system12141129109411174554
1 Small PoxVaccinated133213462
Unvaccinated153519107944 Diseases of organs of special sense36504453183
(No statement103317565
2 Measles3174394594461661
3 Scarlet fever335336458467159645 Diseases of circulatory system21701652143618417099
4 Typhus...4...15
5 Relapsing fever...............
6 Influenza35635484732152646 Croup55414873217
7 Whooping cough531592619588233047 Bronchitis41551651991361610413
8 Diphtheria6396778591089326448 Pneumonia19311921111722307199
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever34772149 Pleurisy931427195401
50 Other respiratory dis's5002862365021524
10 Enteric fever102114212265693
11 Simple cholera122104513251 Dentition127125132109493
12 Diarrhœa, dysentery2067572188297344852 Quinzy, sore throat30254035130
13 Remittent fever......11253 Enteritis1372375531791106
14 Hydrophobia.........1154 Peritonitis8994107103393
15 Glanders11...1355 Diseases of liver2983203723061296
16 Cow pox and effedts of vaccination23281556 Other diseases of digestive system3773924884251682
17 Venereal affections126138159121544
18 Erysipelas746310718042457 Diseases of lymphatic system and du&less glands22333742134
19 Pyaemia & septicaemia23283829118
10 Puerperal fever865979128352
Other zymotic diseases2521202894
11 Thrush71015114358 Diseases of the urinary system6015805316432355
23 Worms and other parasitic diseases635317
59 Diseases of generative system66838569303
24 Starvation, want of breast-milk31315241155
25 Alcoholism12415913411653360 Accidents of childbirth79818293335
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart10389150175517
27 Rheumatism3131212911261 Diseases of locomotive system59706172262
28 Gout45574540187
29 Rickets62626262248
30 Cancer840839902832341362 Diseases of integumentary system875979108333
31 Tabes mesenterica2192805312331269
32 Tubercular meningitis2883233162521179
2I771918188221998176
34 Scrfula, tuberculosis236256244207943
35 Other constitutnl dis's172164154189679VIOLENT DEATHS.
36 Premature birth626579656656251763 Accidents8167176976882918
37 Atelectasi3737515417964 Other than accidental.119132134122507
38 Congnitl. malformatns.8898102100388
39Old age717589565776264765 Other causes74469810357873264