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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 (M).—WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1896.

Causes of Death.1st Qn&rter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.Causes or Death.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.
All causes407406388102160345 Diseases of the circulatory system38323240142
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
46 Croup31228
1 Small-PoxVaccinated..........47 Bronchitis54533451192
Unvaccinated..........48 Pneumonia37522547161
No statement..........49 Pleurisy2..1..3
2 Measles9171544550 Other respiratory diseases978529
3 Scarlet Fever32782051 Dentition214310
4 Typhus „..........
5 Relapsing Fever..........52 Quinzy, sore throat........
6 Influenza22..2653 Enteritis..........
7 Whooping cough1515323554 Peritonitis..1214
8 Diphtheria15413134555 Diseases of liver344516
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined Fever....1..156 Other diseases of digestive system17214718103
10 Enteric Fever2..23757 Diseases of lymphatic system & ductless glands••1••..1
11 Simple cholera..........
12 Diarrhœa, dysentery3528137
13 Remittent Fever..........
14 Hydrophobia..........58 Diseases of urinary system111371142
15 Glanders..........
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination..........59 Diseases, generative system21..25
17 Venereal affections1221660 Accidents of childbirth51..39
18 Erysipelas....336
19 Pyµmia and Septicæmia11..24
20 Puerperal Fever..........
21 Other Zymotic disenses..1i61 Diseases of locomotive system13..26
22 Thrush..........
23 Worms and other para-) sitic diseases .. .. j1162 Diseases of integumen tary system1..247
24 Starvation, want of breast milk..1....1VIOLENT DEATHS. (Accident.)
25 Alcoholism12..25
26 Rheumatic Fever and rheumatism of heart..........63 Fracture and contusion479626
64 Gun shot wounds..........
27 Rheumatism......1165 Cut, stab..........
28 Gout....11266 Burn and scald572519
29 Rickets13....467 Poisin..........
30 Cancer9171184568 Drowning..1214
31 Tabes Mesenterica23741669 Suffocation41117
32 Tubercular Meningitis76352170 Otherwise..12..3
33 Phthisis54403437165
34 Scrofula, tuberculosis455317(Homicide.) 71 Murder and manslaughter..1....1
35 Other constitutn'l diseases1415223485
36 Premature birth91210536
37 Atelectasis......11(Suicide.)
38 Congenital malformations..........
39 Old age884123272 Gun shot wounds..........
73 Cut, stab1......1
40 Apoplexy723112374 Poison....1..1
11 Epilepsy2....3S75 Drowing..........
42 Convulsions13108134476 Hanging....1..1
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system262319158377 Otherwise..1....1
(Execution.)..........
44 Diseases of organs of special sense......11