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 1894 (consisting of 52 weeks) being the eleventh annual report
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Table (K).—COMPARATIVE TABLE DEALING WITH THE YEAR 1894. And with the mean Deaths from the causes specified during the preceding 10 Years.
Mean of 10 years. | 1894. | Mean of 10 years. | 1894. | |||||||
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All Causes | 1680-7 | 1594 | Mean of Ten Years ending 1893, showing totals of each class of Diseases. | 186.3 | 40 Apoplexy | 31.9 | 33 | |||
41 Epilepsy | 7.1 | 2 | ||||||||
Mean of Ten Years ending 1893, showing totals of each class of Diseases. | ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | 42 Convulsions | 47.9 | 33 | ||||||
241.7 | 1 SmallPox | Vaccinated | .8 | .. | 43 Other diseases of Brain and nervous system | 99.4 | 72 | |||
Unvaccinated | .5 | .. | ||||||||
No statement | 1.9 | .. | ||||||||
2 Measles | 44.8 | 58 | 1.2 | 44 Diseases of Organs of special sense | 1.2 | 4 | ||||
3 Scarlet Fever | 21.7 | 24 | ||||||||
4 Typhus ,, | .3 | 2 | 119.7 | 45 Diseases of the circulatory system | 119.7 | 123 | ||||
5 Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | ||||||||
6 Influenza | 14.5 | 10 | ||||||||
7 Whooping cough | 36.1 | 45 | 423.0 | 46 Croup | 18.8 | 11 | ||||
8 Diphtheria | 30.8 | 44 | ||||||||
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined Fever | .8 | 3 | 47 Bronchitis | 224.4 | 176 | |||||
48 Pneumonia | 139.0 | 129 | ||||||||
10 Enteric Fever | 9.3 | 9 | 49 Pleurisy | 4.4 | 4 | |||||
11 Simple cholera | .6 | .. | 50 Other respiratory diseases | 36.4 | 23 | |||||
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery | 60.4 | 30 | 105.8 | 51 Dentition | 20.8 | 15 | ||||
13 Remittent Fever | .. | .. | ||||||||
14 Hydrophobia | .. | .. | 52 Quinzy, sore throat | 2.4 | 1 | |||||
15 Glanders | .1 | .. | 53 Enteritis | .3 | .. | |||||
16 Cow Pox and effects of vaccination | .. | .. | 54 Peritonitis | 6.7 | 4 | |||||
55 Diseases of liver | 16.5 | 13 | ||||||||
17 Venereal affections | 10.0 | 9 | 56 Other diseases of digestive system | 59.1 | 89 | |||||
18 Erysipelas | 4.9 | 6 | ||||||||
19 Pyæmia and Septicæmia | 2.5 | 6 | 1.1 | 57 Diseases of Lymphatic system and ductless glands | 1.1 | 1 | ||||
20 Puerperal Fever | 1.4 | 2 | ||||||||
21 Other Zymotic diseases | .3 | 1 | ||||||||
.8 | 22 Thrush | .6 | .. | |||||||
45.9 | 58 Diseases of urinary sys'm | 45.9 | 41 | |||||||
23 Worms and other Parasitic diseases | .2 | .. | ||||||||
5.7 | 24 Starvation, want of breast milk | 1.9 | 1 | 4.4 | 59 Diseases, generative system | 4.4 | 5 | |||
25 Alcoholism | 3.8 | 2 | 8.3 | 60 Accidents of Childbirth | 8.3 | 14 | ||||
367.4 | 26 Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism of heart | 2.2 | 2 | 3.5 | 61 Diseases of locomotive system, | 3.5 | 8 | |||
27 Rheumatism | 3.5 | 2 | 7.4 | 62 Diseases of integumentary system, | 7.4 | 6 | ||||
28 Gout | 1.0 | 2 | ||||||||
29 Rickets | 4.1 | 3 | ||||||||
30 Cancer | 36.8 | 40 | VIOLENT DEATHS. | |||||||
31 Tabes Mesenterica | 23.0 | 25 | ||||||||
32 Tubercular Meningitis | 19.0 | 12 | 56.4 | 63 Accident | 56.4 | 53 | ||||
33 Phthisis | 157.8 | 175 | ||||||||
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis | 15.4 | 34 | 5.6 | 64 Other than accident | 5.6 | 5 | ||||
35 Other constitutn'l diseases | 104.6 | 109 | ||||||||
94.4 | 36 Premature birth | 28.3 | 36 | 2.1 | 65 Others causes | 2.1 | .. | |||
37 Atelectasis | .7 | .. | ||||||||
38 Congenital Malformations | .7 | .. | ||||||||
39 Old age | 64.7 | 37 |