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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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T able (M).—WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1894.

Causes of Death.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.Causes op Death.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.
All causes479414348353159445 Diseases of the circulatory system31223634123
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.46 Croup521311
1 SmallPoxVaccinated..........
47 Bronchitis74342147176
Unvaccinated..........48 Pneumonia42412026129
No statement..........49 Pleurisy1..214
2 Measles1537335850 Other respiratory diseases1242023
3 Scarlet Fever96452451 Dentition462315
4 Typhus „2......2
5 Relapsing Fever..........52 Quinzy, sore throat1......1
6 Influenza811..1053 Enteritis..........
7 Whooping cough2018524554 Peritonitis11114
8 Diphtheria61013154455 Diseases of liver333413
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined Fever3......356 Other diseases of digestive system1421381689
10 Enteric Fever41..4957 Diseases of lymphatic system & ductless glands..1....1
11 Simple cholera..........
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery1326..30
13 Remittent Fever..........
14 Hydrophobia..........58 Diseases of urinary system101291041
15 Glanders..........
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination..........59 Diseases, of generative system12..25
17 Venereal affections2331960 Accidents of childbirth..422614
18 Erysipelas11226
19 Pyæmia and Septicæmia3..216
20 Puerperal Fever2......261 Diseases of locomotive system323..8
21 Other Zymotic diseases..1....1
22 Thrush..........62 Diseases of integumentary system11226
23 Worms and other parasitic diseases..........
24 Starvation, want of breast milk......11VIOLENT DEATHS.
25 Alcoholism..1..12(Accident.)
26 Rheumatic Fever and rheumatism of heart1....1263 Fracture and contusion574319
64 Gun shot wounds..........
27 Rheumatism....11265 Cut, stab..........
28 Gout..1l..266 Burn and scald721111
29 Rickets2....1367 Poison12....3
30 Cancer7125164068 Drowning..31..4
31 Tabes Mesenterica641052569 Suffocation514414
32 Tubercular Meningitis52141270 Otherwise..2....2
55443739175
34 Scrofula, tuberculosis51261184(Homicide.)
35 Other constitutn'l diseases33232726109
36 Premature birth119973671 Murder and manslaughter..........
37 Atelectasis..........(Suicide.)
38 Congenital malformations..........
39 Old age1115563772 Gun shot wounds..........
73 Cut, stab..........
40 Apoplexy5810103374 Poison1......1
41 Epilepsy1..1..275 Drowning..........
42 Convulsions1110753376 Hanging1..124
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system212015167277 Otherwise..........
44 Diseases of organs of special sense211....(Execution.)
78 Hanging..........