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Shoreditch 1896

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 Causes408238 Congenital malformations-
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.39 Old age154
40 Apoplexy2
1 Small Pox -Vaccinated41 Epilepsy26
Unvaccinated42 Convulsions15
No Statement-43 Other Diseases of brain and nervous system153
2 Measles65
3 Scarlet fever30
44 Diseases of organs of special sense18
4 Typhus-
5 Relapsing fever-
6 Influenza6645 Diseases of circulatory system147
7 Whooping Cough7846 Laryngitis9
8 Diphtheria1847 Bronchitis963
9 Simple, Continued and illdefined fever16
46 Pneumonia55
10 Enteric fever2149 Pleurisy21
11 Simple cholera50 Other respiratory diseases35
12 Diarrhœ, Dysentery18451 Dentition9
13 Remittent fever52 Quinzy, sore throat33
14 Hydrophobia53 Enteritis36
15 Glanders54 Peritonitis3
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination-55 Diseases of liver21
56 Other diseases of digestive system226
17 Venereal affections20
18 Erysipelas25
19 Pyaemia and Septicaemia-57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands12
20 Puerperal fever
21 Tabes Mesenterica
58 Diseases of urinary system47
22 Tubercular Meningitis
23 Phthisis15259 Diseases of generative system20
24 Scrofula, Tuberculosis20
25 Other Zymotic diseases5360 Accidents of childbirth2
DISEASES OTHER THAN ZYMOTIC.
61 Diseases of locomotive system145
26 Thrush-
62 Diseases of integumentary system86
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases7
28 Starvation,want of breast-milk-VIOLENCE.—Accident.
29 Alcoholism2763 Fracture and contusion36
30 Rheumatic fever and Rheumatism of heart3164 Gun shot wounds
31 Rheumatism24965 Cut, stab1
32 Gout4566 Burn or scald3
3 Rickets667 Poison9
34 Cancer2168 Drowning
35 Other constitutional diseases6969 Suffocation
36 Premature birth970 Otherwise66
37 Atelectasis-71 Other Causes578