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 1912
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1912 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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Causes of death in Inquest cases-
Acute Pneumonia 17
„ Indigestion 1
Angina Pectoris 1
Aortic Incompetence 4
Apoplexy 10
Atelectasis 2
Atrophy of the Heart 2
Bronchitis 4
Bronco-Pneumonia 5
Cancer of Liver 1
„ Larynx 1
Cardiac Rupture 1
„ Valvular Disease 16
Cerebral Tumour I
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 1
Collapse and Hoemorrhage 1
Convulsions 7
Cystic Kidney Disease 1
Diabetes 1
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 3
Emphysema
Erysipelas 4
Fatty Degeneration of Heart 10
Gastric Ulcer 1
Gastro-Enteritis
General Tuberculosis 8
Improper Feeding 1
Inanition 2
Intussusception of Bowels 3
Liver and Kidney Disease 1
Malnutrition 1
Meningitis 1
Measles 1
Mitral Incompetence I
Peritonitis 3
Pertussis 4