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Whitechapel 1894

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.
All Causes1680-71594Mean of Ten Years ending 1893, showing totals of each class of Diseases.186.340 Apoplexy31.933
41 Epilepsy7.12
Mean of Ten Years ending 1893, showing totals of each class of Diseases.ZYMOTIC DISEASES.42 Convulsions47.933
241.71 SmallPoxVaccinated.8..43 Other diseases of Brain and nervous system99.472
Unvaccinated.5..
No statement1.9..
2 Measles44.8581.244 Diseases of Organs of special sense1.24
3 Scarlet Fever21.724
4 Typhus ,,.32119.745 Diseases of the circulatory system119.7123
5 Relapsing Fever....
6 Influenza14.510
7 Whooping cough36.145423.046 Croup18.811
8 Diphtheria30.844
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined Fever.8347 Bronchitis224.4176
48 Pneumonia139.0129
10 Enteric Fever9.3949 Pleurisy4.44
11 Simple cholera.6..50 Other respiratory diseases36.423
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery60.430105.851 Dentition20.815
13 Remittent Fever....
14 Hydrophobia....52 Quinzy, sore throat2.41
15 Glanders.1..53 Enteritis.3..
16 Cow Pox and effects of vaccination....54 Peritonitis6.74
55 Diseases of liver16.513
17 Venereal affections10.0956 Other diseases of digestive system59.189
18 Erysipelas4.96
19 Pyæmia and Septicæmia2.561.157 Diseases of Lymphatic system and ductless glands1.11
20 Puerperal Fever1.42
21 Other Zymotic diseases.31
.822 Thrush.6..
45.958 Diseases of urinary sys'm45.941
23 Worms and other Parasitic diseases.2..
5.724 Starvation, want of breast milk1.914.459 Diseases, generative system4.45
25 Alcoholism3.828.360 Accidents of Childbirth8.314
367.426 Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism of heart2.223.561 Diseases of locomotive system,3.58
27 Rheumatism3.527.462 Diseases of integumentary system,7.46
28 Gout1.02
29 Rickets4.13
30 Cancer36.840VIOLENT DEATHS.
31 Tabes Mesenterica23.025
32 Tubercular Meningitis19.01256.463 Accident56.453
33 Phthisis157.8175
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis15.4345.664 Other than accident5.65
35 Other constitutn'l diseases104.6109
94.436 Premature birth28.3362.165 Others causes2.1..
37 Atelectasis.7..
38 Congenital Malformations.7..
39 Old age64.737