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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

Southwark 1916

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1916

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Table: TABLE 9.Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death at all Ages during 1916.

TABLE 9.

Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death at all Ages during 1916.

Causes of Death.AGES.All Ages
0-1-510-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85M.F.
Small Pox.............................................
(a) Vaccinated.............................................
(6) Unvaccinated.............................................
(c) No statement.............................................
Measles10722..............................3747
Scarlet Fever...32..............................23
Typhus Fever.............................................
Epidemic Influenza...21122333742...2 28
Whooping Cough16253..............................1430
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup619113...2.....................1427
Enteric Fever.........1.........1...............2...
Asiatic Cholera.............................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery409...1......21...1...2...3818
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis2411.................................1718
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Fever54.................................63
Polio Myelitis.............................................
Chicken Pox.............................................
Hydrophobia.............................................
Glanders, Farcy.............................................
Tetanus...1.................................1...
Anthrax, Splenic Fever.............................................
Cowpox, Accidents of Vaccination.............................................
Syphilis17...............1...21.........147
Gonorrhæa.............................................
Phagædena.............................................
Erysipelas..............................1......1...
Pyæmia, Septicaemia...2...............12...1......42
Puerperal Fever............1132..................7
Infective Endocarditis......1......111..................4
Carbuncle.............................................
Cellulitis1.....................11.........3...
Malarial Fever.............................................
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart1.........12132......1...47
Tuberculosis, total:.............................................
Tubercular Disease of Brain or Meninges, Acute Hydrocephalus1124924...1..................2526
Laryngeal & Pulmonary Phthisis512312262964968142183...242149
Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Disease of Intestine1312............4...1......75
General Tuberculosis, Tubercular Disease of undefined position67432...9......1.........178
Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula......122.........2...1......62
Thrush.............................................
Actinomycosis.............................................
Hydatid Disease.............................................