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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

Bermondsey 1913

Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1913

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Table: TABLE XVI.—Causes of Death, 1913. Corrected for Deaths of Non-Residents within the Borough and Deaths of Residents without the Borough.

TABLE XVI.—Causes of Death, 1913. Corrected for Deaths of Non-Residents within the Borough and Deaths of Residents without the Borough.

Cause of Deaths.Whole Borough.Bermondsey.Rotherhithe.St Olave.Under 1 week.1 and under 2 weeks.2 and under 3 weeks.3 and under 4 weeks.Total under 1 month.1 and under 3 months3 and under 6 months.6 and under 9 months.9 and under 12 months.Total under 1 year.Under 1 year.1 and under 2 years.2 and under 5 years.5 and under 10 years.10 and under 15 years.15 and under 20 years.20 and under 25 years25 and under 35 years.35 and under 45 years.45 and under 53 years.55 and under 65 years.65 and under 75 years.75 and under 85 years.5 and upwards.Total All Ages
Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Femle.
I.—General Diseases—
1. Enteric fever2...2...................................................1........................1....................................11
2. Typhus......................................................................................................................................
3. Relapsing fever— (a) Relapsing fever....................................................................................................................................
(b) Mediterranean fever....................................................................................................................................
4. Malaria....................................................................................................................................
5. Smallpox(a) Smallpox—Vaccinated....................................................................................................................................
(b) Smallpox—Not vaccinated....................................................................................................................................
(c) Smallpox—Doubtful....................................................................................................................................
6 Measles8851307..................1513199102412151332............................................................5137
7. Scarlet fever55................................................13..................................................................14
8. Whooping cough4736101...............13651587515561...............................................................192
9.Diphtheria, Croup— (a) Diphtheria16961........................4422142311............................................................610
(6) Membranous laryngitis....................................................................................................................................
(c) Croup..............................................................................................................................148
10. Influenza221444..................................................................112......1525...12...2............
11. Miliary fever....................................................................................................................................
12. Asiatic cholera....................................................................................................................................
13- Cholera nostras....................................................................................................................................
14. Dysentry11..............................................................................................................................
15. Plague....................................................................................................................................
16. Yellow fever....................................................................................................................................
17. leprosy....................................................................................................................................
18. Erysipelas642.................................................................................1......111......11......33
19. Other epidemic diseases(a) Mumps11......................................................1...............................................................1...
(b) German measles1...1..........................................1...........................................................................1
(c) Varicella....................................................................................................................................
(d) Other diseases included under 19....................................................................................................................................
20. Pyæmia, Septicæmia— (a) Pyaemia11.........................................................................................................1...............1
(b) Septicæmia541..................111...321..................1..........................................1............32
(c) Vaccinia....................................................................................................................................
21. Glanders.................................................................................................................................1
22. Anthrax (Splenic fever)11.....................................................................1......................................................
23. Rabies....................................................................................................................................
24. Tetanus....................................................................................................................................
25. Mycoses— (a) Actinomycosis....................................................................................................................................
(b) Other mycoses....................................................................................................................................
26. Pellagra....................................................................................................................................
27. Beri-beri....................................................................................................................................
28. Pulmonary Tuberculosis (not acute)— (a) Pulmonary tuberculosis1781095910........................111...1...1.........3271075221131222713743......1......11068
(b) Phthisis (not defined as tuberculous)109...1..................................................................1......2222............1............55
29. Acute phthisis Acute miliary tuberculosis— (a) Acute phthisis431..........................................1.........1...1.......................................1...............4
(b) Acute miliary tuberculosis9441.....................1...11......1111111..................1.................................274
30. Tuberculous meningitis4129102.........11...1158445111245111.........1......1..............................2714
31. Tuberculosis of peritoneum and intestines— (a) Tabes mesenterica44.....................2......2431..............................................................................31
(b) Other peritoneal and intestinal tubercle98...1..................21...32111...1............1...............1.................................54
32. Tuberculosis of spinal column54...1...............1.........1...1...............111...........................1........................14
33. Tuberculosis of joints33......................................................11....................................1.....................21
34. Tuberculosis of other organs— (a) Lupus....................................................................................................................................
(b) Scrofula....................................................................................................................................
(c) Other tuberculosis included under 34...1...........................................................................................................................1
35. Disseminated (general) tuberculosis136611...............3...2532221......1..................2.......................................85