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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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CORRECT LIST OF DISTRICT DEATHS FOR THE TEN YEARS

ENDING 1893.

CAUSES OF DEATH—53 weeks53 weeks
1884188518861887188818891890189118921893
All causes1571145616241602157415331866183918781886
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1 Small-poxVaccinated14..............3
Un-vaccinated32................
No Statement116..............2
2 Measles26504652246759365632
3 Scarlet-fever451622271821783131
4 Typhus..11..........1..
5 Relapsing fever....................
6 Influenza............3506131
7 Whooping-cough50364530371252314325
8 Diphtheria88166213353495757
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever2311......1....
10 Enteric fever15511713916737
11 Simple Cholera1..11..2......1
12 Diarrhœa, Dysentry97506580506559453855
13 Remittent fever....................
14 Hydrophobia....................
15 Glanders..................1
16 Cow-Pox and effects of vaccination....................
17 Venereal affections141217118311978
18 Erysipelas92365211812
19 Pyæmia and Septicæmia226324..312
20 Puerperal fever....11....2136
21 Other Zymotic diseases......1......1..1
22 Thrush......121......2
23 Worms and other Parasitic diseases..1......1........
24 Starvation, want of breast-milk....1233..262
25 Alcoholism3614655251
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart1314141241
27 Rheumatism6133241735
28 Gout..22......1122
29 Rickets1141366388
30 Cancer25253041364136394550
31 Tabes Mesenterica23222329371520222118
32 Tubercular Meningitis3635201014101392518
33 Phthisis149121122159151154189191160182
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis432114202413201817
35 Other constitutional diseases90105120101678999116133126
36 Premature birth252322272 52532303638
37 Atelectasis......1........24
38 Congenital Malformations2....14..........
39 Old Age55415959809673655762
40 Apoplexy43432519372732352731
41 Epilepsy946910641544
42 Convulsions39375452533561595138
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system771011001051131001048999106
44 Diseases of organs of special sense1..111..1232
45 Diseases of circulatory system988494111117117122152149153