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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 L.—METROPOLITAN DEATHS FOR FOUR QUARTERS ENDED DECEMBER 26th, 1896.

Causes of Death.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.Causes of Death.1st Quarter.'2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4 th Quarter.Total.
All Causes216191969920727196998174440 Apoplexy5445074575712079
41 Epilepsy106876992354
42 Convulsions4424444874451818
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.43 Other Diseases of Brain and Nervous System1036100210189544010
1 Small-PoxVaccinated......... .
Unvaccinated211..4
No statement32....544 Diseases of Organs of Special Sense41505143185
2 Measles138416304971703681
3 Scarlet Fever264197218244923
4 Typhus ,,1..41645 Diseases of the Circulatory System18421553146318516709
5 Relapsing Fever..........
6 Influenza16812942143482
7 Whooping cough9791188504220289146 Croup42352742146
8 Diphtheria683567649736263547 Bronchitis2544145482625287352
9 Simple, Continued & Ill-defined Fever43131248 Pneumonia1744134281615265428
49 Pleurisy64675265248
10 Enteric Fever1378116319757850 Other respiratory dis's.3672481973331145
11 Simple Cholera..589195
12 Diarrhœa, Dysentery1292692625186320951 Dentition12311611995453
13 Remittent Fever11....252 Quinzy, Sore Throat617272070
14 Hydrophobia31....453 Enteritis17021910502301669
15 Glanders..........54 Peritonitis72737065280
16 Cow-Pox and Effects of Vaccination2212755 Diseases of Liver2792593433021183
56 Other Diseases of Digestive System3903534113341488
17 Venereal Affections116110104108438
18 Erysipelas45395163198
57 Diseases of Lymphatic system and Duetless glands27333521116
19 Pyemia & Septiæmia2228221890
20 Puerperal Fever59475363222
21 Other Zymotic diseases2715151774
22 Thrash6313103258 Diseases of Urinary) system6065214946062227
23 Worms and other Parasitic diseases )..2349
59 Diseases, Generative system68627667273
21 Starvation, Want of Breast-milk1913181060
25 Alcoholism11012914114652660 Accidents of Childbirth72695680277
26 Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism of the Heart9063103125381
61 Diseases of Locomotive system75595959252
27 Rheumatism26303028114
28 Gout4738343014962 Diseases of Integumentary system67547880279
29 Rickets73645650243
30 Lancer90310159189473783VIOLENT DEATHS.
31 Tabes Mesenteries1982034511971049
32 Tubercular Meningitis2643363252431168
33 Phthisis1933186017932022760863 Accidents7286956817422846
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis25825827320199064 Other than Accidental129135128102494
35 Other constitut'nl dis's17214714422368665 Other Causes5885678966112662
36 Premature Birth564557702650473
37 Atelectasis5649577623866 Inquests18701744168419427240
38 Congntl Malformatns.1059610910341367 Uncertified Causes of Deaths154118121137530
39 Old Age5945005315982223