Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch for the year 1896
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TABLE XXVIII.
ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the
Parish during the Year ending December 31st, 1896.
Diseases. | Diseases. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
All Causes | 4082 | 38 Congenital malformations | - | |
ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | 39 Old age | 154 | ||
40 Apoplexy | 2 | |||
1 Small Pox - | Vaccinated | — | 41 Epilepsy | 26 |
Unvaccinated | — | 42 Convulsions | 15 | |
No Statement | - | 43 Other Diseases of brain and nervous system | 153 | |
2 Measles | 65 | |||
3 Scarlet fever | 30 | |||
44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 18 | |||
4 Typhus | - | |||
5 Relapsing fever | - | |||
6 Influenza | 66 | 45 Diseases of circulatory system | 147 | |
7 Whooping Cough | 78 | 46 Laryngitis | 9 | |
8 Diphtheria | 18 | 47 Bronchitis | 963 | |
9 Simple, Continued and illdefined fever | 16 | |||
46 Pneumonia | 55 | |||
10 Enteric fever | 21 | 49 Pleurisy | 21 | |
11 Simple cholera | — | 50 Other respiratory diseases | 35 | |
12 Diarrhœ, Dysentery | 184 | 51 Dentition | 9 | |
13 Remittent fever | — | 52 Quinzy, sore throat | 33 | |
14 Hydrophobia | — | 53 Enteritis | 36 | |
15 Glanders | — | 54 Peritonitis | 3 | |
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination | - | 55 Diseases of liver | 21 | |
56 Other diseases of digestive system | 226 | |||
17 Venereal affections | 20 | |||
18 Erysipelas | 25 | |||
19 Pyaemia and Septicaemia | - | 57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 12 | |
20 Puerperal fever | — | |||
21 Tabes Mesenterica | — | |||
58 Diseases of urinary system | 47 | |||
22 Tubercular Meningitis | — | |||
23 Phthisis | 152 | 59 Diseases of generative system | 20 | |
24 Scrofula, Tuberculosis | 20 | |||
25 Other Zymotic diseases | 53 | 60 Accidents of childbirth | 2 | |
DISEASES OTHER THAN ZYMOTIC. | ||||
61 Diseases of locomotive system | 145 | |||
26 Thrush | - | |||
62 Diseases of integumentary system | 86 | |||
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | 7 | |||
28 Starvation,want of breast-milk | - | VIOLENCE.—Accident. | ||
29 Alcoholism | 27 | 63 Fracture and contusion | 36 | |
30 Rheumatic fever and Rheumatism of heart | 31 | 64 Gun shot wounds | — | |
31 Rheumatism | 249 | 65 Cut, stab | 1 | |
32 Gout | 45 | 66 Burn or scald | 3 | |
3 Rickets | 6 | 67 Poison | 9 | |
34 Cancer | 21 | 68 Drowning | — | |
35 Other constitutional diseases | 69 | 69 Suffocation | — | |
36 Premature birth | 9 | 70 Otherwise | 66 | |
37 Atelectasis | - | 71 Other Causes | 578 |