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Whitechapel 1896

The annual report on the sanitary condition of the Whitechapel District, (with vital and other statistics), for the year 1896 (consisting of 53 weeks) being the thirteenth annual report

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Table (H).—DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS' ANALYSIS OF CASES FOR 1896.

Diseases.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.Diseases.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.
All Causes1116118712271393522340 Apoplexy1......1
41 Epilepsy8138..29
42 Convulsions..31..4
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.43 Other diseases of brain) and nervous system48455161205
1 Small-PoxVaccinated..........
Unvaccinated..........44 Diseases of organs of special sense1410211661
No statement..........
2 Measles4172514745 Diseases of circulatory
3 Scarlet-Fever2115119system43261427110
4 Typhus ,,..........46 Croup..........
5 Relapsing Fever..........
6 Influenza3425152610047 Bronchitis20312676146551
7 Whooping Cough1142..1748 Pneumonia465419
8 Diphtheria..242849 Pleurisy991322
9 Simple, Continued and ill-defined Fever..........50 Other respiratory diseases164135120239658
10 Enteric Fever..........51 Dentition11..13
11 Simple Cholera..........52 Quinzy, sore throat1514142063
12 Diarrhœa, Dysentery615471-28053 Enteritis..........
13 Remittent Fever..........54 Peritonitis..1....1
14 Hydrophobia..........55 Diseases of liver..37515
15 Glanders..........
18 Cow Pox and effects of Vaccination..........56 Other diseases of diges tive system66729269299
17 Venereal affections4124433214057 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands927624
18 Erysipelas343515
19 Pyemia and Septiæmia..........................
20 Puerperal Fever......................
21 Other Zymotic Diseases24241258 Diseases of urinary system40281730115
22 Thrush..1....1
23 Worms and other Parasitic Diseases11....259 Diseases of generative system74647250260
60 Accidents of childbirth1........
24 Starvation, want of breast-milk132512247461 Diseases of locomotive) system160152166194672
25 Alcoholism51013634
26 Rheumntic Fever and rheumatism of heart..........62 Diseases of integumentary system74634854239
27 Rheumatism122104104147477
28 Goat26..513ACCIDENTS.
29 Rickets..........
30 Cancer2......2
31 Tabes Mesenterica3..24963 Fracture and contusion54454763209
32 Tubercular Meningitis..........64 Gun shot wounds..........
33 Phthisis202519208465 Cut, stab..46414
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis2......266 Burn and scald32..49
35 Other constitutnl.diseases32251267 Poison12418
36 Premature birth..........68 Drowning..........
69 Suffocation..........
37 Atelectasis..........70 Otherwise..........
38 Congenital malformation..........71 Other causes1478714198473
39 Old age141410