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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 N.—METROPOLITAN DEATHS FOE FOUR QUARTERS ENDED DECEMBER 29 th , 1894.

Causes of Death.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.Causes of Death.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.
All Causes229891883417240180007706340 Apoplexy5804834265011990
41 Epilepsy105957773350
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.42 Convulsions4714335004511855
43 Other Diseases of Brain and Nervous System10859769169363913
1 SmallPoxVaccinated51112331
Unvaccinated4222114844 Diseases of Organs of Special Sense46374138162
No statement21110124
2 Measles78817454593003292
3 Scarlet Fever270286228175965
4 Typhus „113..545 Diseases of the Circulatory System17971407130815306042
5 Relapsing Fever..........
6 Influenza45311053134750
7 Whooping cough932608349205209446 Croup53353939166
8 Diphtheria728652611653267447 Bronchitis3308141893721577820
9 Simple, Continued & Ill-defined Fever56111348 Pneumonia1947139972712515324
49 Pleurisy72725344241
10 Enteric Fever13912410726563550 Other respiratory dis's.3862391912771093
11 Simple Cholera426232
L2 Diarrhoea, Dysentery1711401215254178051 Dentition1271151047141'/
13 Remittent Fever1....1252 Quinzy, Sore Throat1724182281
14 Hydrophobia1......153 Enteritis144155456162917
15 Glanders......1154 Peritonitis8787628131/
16 Cow-Pox and Effects of Vaccination1332955 Diseases of Liver2962623102861154
56 Other Diseases of Digestive System4273713753471520
17 Venereal Affections129115122133499
18 Erysipelas8652364722157 Diseases of Lymphatic system and Ductless glands31282733119
19 Pyæmia & Septicæmia2631201996
20 Puerperal Fever87532939208
21 Other Zymotic diseases1925151170
22 Thrush11813104258 Diseases of Urinary system5695034805052057
23 Worms and other Parasitic diseases434617
24 Starvation, Want of Breast-milk351622239659 Diseases, Generative system78655856257
25 Alcoholism115104100111430
26 Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism of the Heart11377818135260 Accidents of Childbirth81645665266
27 Rheumatism241517197561 Diseases of Locomotive system84906868310
28 Gout51343633154
29 Rickets65686063256
30 Cancer833843876889344162 Diseases of Integumentary system J66625877263
31 Tabes Mesenterica236187324207954
32 Tubercular Meningitis2732643192361092
33 Phthisis21801848164118737542
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis256241262224983VIOLENT DEATHS.
35 Other constitut'nl dis's162160148157627
36 Premature Birth571574568648236163 Accidents7586316136212623
37 Atelectasis5444505820664 Other than Accidental134143143103523
38 Congntl. Malformatns95979911440565 Other Causes6615417886752665
39 Old Age6475174395322135