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 1910
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1910 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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Causes of death in Inquest cases—
Abscess 1
Apoplexy 14
Atelectasis 1
Bronchitis 10
Broncho-Pneumonia 3
Cancer 4
Cardiac Valvular Disease 10
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 2
Cerebral Thrombosis 1
Chronic Kidney Disease 4
„ Liver Disease 1
„ Nephritis 1
Congestion of Lungs 2
Convulsions 12
Diarrhoea 3
Diphtheria 1
Dropsy 1
Enteric Fever 1
Erysipelas 1
Epileptic Fits 1
Exhauston Melancholy 2
Fatty Degeneration of Heart 6
Gastritis 1
General Tuberculosis 3
Inanition 3
Marasmus 4
Measles 2
Meningitis 3
Pericarditis 2
Peritonitis 1
Phthisis 8
Pleurisy 5
Pneumonia 13
Premature Birth 9
Rupture of Aneurism 3
Rickets 1
Senile Decay 11
Spasm of Windpipe 1
Status Symphaticus 3