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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Mile End 1858

Report of the Medical Officer of Health to the Vestry of Mile End Old Town

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The deaths of young children under 5 years of age will
be here seen to amount to nearly half of the whole number of
deaths.

Table: TABLE V. CAUSES OF DEATH, 1857

TABLE V. CAUSES OF DEATH, 1857

DISEASES.
1st Qr.2nd Qr.3rd Qr4th Qr.Total.
Fever1010121951
Measles25132040
Scarlatina and Cynanche Maligna229142570
Diarrhoea4518734
Dysentery1—2—3
Hooping Cough1913301173
Croup8107126
Erysipelas342110
Pulmonary Consumption50453437166
Inflammation of the Lungs82281840168
Diarrhoea, Bronchitis, and Pneu
monia, of Children under 3
years33366547181
Water on the Brain, and Convul
sions of Infants29343424121
Dropsy942823
Cancer22—26
Hernia1___1
Diseases of the Heart and large
Bloodvessels111014742
Apoplexy, Paralysis, and Diseases
of the Brain720222069
Puerperal Fever1—1—2
Premature Birth, and Debility
from Birth2217221677
Violence, Privation, and Poison .12815237
Natural Decay38452830141
Other Diseases, chiefly Chronic1 .54366152203
Total4203414143691544

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*In the line for "Other Diseases, chiefly Chronic," are included two
cases which were too equivocal to be placed under their usual names. One
was a case of Varicella, registered as Small Pox; and the other a case of
Cholera, too doubtful to he here registered as such.