Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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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CORRECT LIST OF DISTRICT DEATHS FOR THE TEN YEARS
ENDING 1893.
CAUSES OF DEATH— | 53 weeks | 53 weeks | |||||||||
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1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | ||
All causes | 1571 | 1456 | 1624 | 1602 | 1574 | 1533 | 1866 | 1839 | 1878 | 1886 | |
ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
1 Small-pox | Vaccinated | 1 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 |
Un-vaccinated | 3 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
No Statement | 11 | 6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |
2 Measles | 26 | 50 | 46 | 52 | 24 | 67 | 59 | 36 | 56 | 32 | |
3 Scarlet-fever | 45 | 16 | 22 | 27 | 18 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 31 | 31 | |
4 Typhus | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | |
5 Relapsing fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
6 Influenza | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 50 | 61 | 31 | |
7 Whooping-cough | 50 | 36 | 45 | 30 | 37 | 12 | 52 | 31 | 43 | 25 | |
8 Diphtheria | 8 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 21 | 33 | 53 | 49 | 57 | 57 | |
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | |
10 Enteric fever | 15 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 7 | |
11 Simple Cholera | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |
12 Diarrhœa, Dysentry | 97 | 50 | 65 | 80 | 50 | 65 | 59 | 45 | 38 | 55 | |
13 Remittent fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
14 Hydrophobia | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
15 Glanders | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |
16 Cow-Pox and effects of vaccination | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
17 Venereal affections | 14 | 12 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 8 | |
18 Erysipelas | 9 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 12 | |
19 Pyæmia and Septicæmia | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | .. | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
20 Puerperal fever | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |
21 Other Zymotic diseases | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | |
22 Thrush | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |
23 Worms and other Parasitic diseases | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
24 Starvation, want of breast-milk | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | .. | 2 | 6 | 2 | |
25 Alcoholism | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | |
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |
27 Rheumatism | 6 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | |
28 Gout | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
29 Rickets | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 8 | |
30 Cancer | 25 | 25 | 30 | 41 | 36 | 41 | 36 | 39 | 45 | 50 | |
31 Tabes Mesenterica | 23 | 22 | 23 | 29 | 37 | 15 | 20 | 22 | 21 | 18 | |
32 Tubercular Meningitis | 36 | 35 | 20 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 25 | 18 | |
33 Phthisis | 149 | 121 | 122 | 159 | 151 | 154 | 189 | 191 | 160 | 182 | |
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis | 4 | 3 | 21 | 14 | 20 | 24 | 13 | 20 | 18 | 17 | |
35 Other constitutional diseases | 90 | 105 | 120 | 101 | 67 | 89 | 99 | 116 | 133 | 126 | |
36 Premature birth | 25 | 23 | 22 | 27 | 2 5 | 25 | 32 | 30 | 36 | 38 | |
37 Atelectasis | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 4 | |
38 Congenital Malformations | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
39 Old Age | 55 | 41 | 59 | 59 | 80 | 96 | 73 | 65 | 57 | 62 | |
40 Apoplexy | 43 | 43 | 25 | 19 | 37 | 27 | 32 | 35 | 27 | 31 | |
41 Epilepsy | 9 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 4 | |
42 Convulsions | 39 | 37 | 54 | 52 | 53 | 35 | 61 | 59 | 51 | 38 | |
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 77 | 101 | 100 | 105 | 113 | 100 | 104 | 89 | 99 | 106 | |
44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | |
45 Diseases of circulatory system | 98 | 84 | 94 | 111 | 117 | 117 | 122 | 152 | 149 | 153 |