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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 1915

Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1915

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Table: TABLE XVI.—Causes of Death, 1915. Corrected for Deaths of Non-Residents within the Borough and Deaths of Residents without the Borough.

TABLE XVI.—Causes of Death, 1915. 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 months.3 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 years.25 and under 35 years.35 and under 45 years.45 and under 55 years.55 and under 65 years.65 and under 75 years.75 and under 85 years.85 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.Female.
General Diseases
1. Enteric fever312...........................................................................1...11..............................21
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. Measles110752015..................11015261610213082311............................................................4664
7. Scarlet fever972............................................22211.............................................1............3
8. Whooping cough,7952252...............2611102917121212121112............................................................4237
9. Diphtheria, Croup
(a) Diphtheria201483........................111......2242512...........................1...........................713
(b) Membranous laryngitis.................................................................................................................................1
(c) Croup11..............................11...1....................................................................................
10. Influenza11101............................................................1..................2.........2121...1...165
11. Miliary fever....................................................................................................................................
12. Asiatic cholera....................................................................................................................................
13. Cholera nostras...................................................................................................................................
14. Dysentery44................................................................................................21...1............22
15. Plague...................................................................................................................................
16.Yellow Fever....................................................................................................................................
17. Leprosy....................................................................................................................................
18. Erysipelas211.....................1......1...1..............................................................................11
19. Other epidemic diseases—
(a) Mumps....................................................................................................................................
(b) German measles....................................................................................................................................
(c) Varicella211.....................1......11............1..................................................................11
(d) Other diseases included under 19....................................................................................................................................
20. Pyæmia, Septicæmia—
(a) Pyæmia22.....................1.........1..........................................................................................
(b) Septicæmia7421...............1.........11.........1.........11............1........................1............52
(c) Vaccinia....................................................................................................................................
21. Glanders....................................................................................................................................
22. Anthrax (Splenic fever)....................................................................................................................................
23. Rabies....................................................................................................................................
24. Tetanus....................................................................................................................................
25. Mycoses—
(a) Actinomycosis....................................................................................................................................
(b) Other mycoses....................................................................................................................................
26. Pellagra.....................................................................................................................................
27. Beri-beri....................................................................................................................................
28. Pulmonary Tuberculosis (not acute)—
(a) Pulmonary tuberculosis1951275216.....................1...11.........12......1566111128162917231810253............11580
(b) Phthisis (not defined as tuberculous)261844..................................................................2341355...1...11............1610
29.Acute phthisis, Acute miliary tuberculosis-
(a) Acute phthisis541..........................................1......1........................1............2.....................32
(b) Acute miliary tuberculosis77........................1...1211111............1......1.............................................43
30. Tuberculous meningitis40281111.........1......236512854432...1......1......211...........................2218
31. Tuberculosis of peritoneum and intestines—
(a) Tabes mesenterica44...........................1121111........................................................................22
(b) Other peritoneal and intestinal tubercle541.....................1...12...211...............1......................................................14
32. Tuberculosis of spinal column55......................................................1......2..................1......1........................23
33. Tuberculosis of joints11...........................................................................1.............................................1
34. Tuberculosis of other organs—
(a) Lupus....................................................................................................................................
(b) Scrofula....................................................................................................................................
(c) Other tuberculosis included under 3411.............................................1...........................................................................1
35. Disseminated (general) tuberculosis141031..................1......1...1211...411...1...1.....................1.....................118