London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Bethnal Green 1908
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1908 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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INQUEST CASES.* Inquest Cases according to age periods—
| Numher under one year | 96 |
| Ditto over one year and under five years | 42 |
| Ditto over five ditto twenty years | 12 |
| Ditto over twenty ditto forty years | 24 |
| Ditto over forty ditto sixty years | 51 |
| Ditto over sixty ditto eighty years | 39 |
| Ditto over eighty | 10 |
| Total | 274 |
| Cause of death in Inquest cases— | |
| Acute Bronchitis | 6 |
| Acute Congestion of the Lungs | 1 |
| Acute Indigestion | 1 |
| Apoplexy | 15 |
| Broncho-Pneumonia | i |
| Cancer of Stomach | 5 |
| Cardiac Valvular Disease | 10 |
| Chronic Alcoholism | 1 |
| Chronic Kidney Disease | 3 |
| Chronic Liver Disease | 2 |
| Convulsions | 16 |
| Diphtheria | 6 |
| Destitution and Poverty | 6 |
| Dropsy | 1 |
| Exhaustion from Diarrhœa | 4 |
| Erysipelas | 1 |
| Gastro-Enteritis | 6 |
| Fatty Degeneration of Heart | 15 |
| Hemorrhage | 1 |