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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

Paddington 1897

Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1897

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Table: Males. Table III. (continued).

Males. Table III. (continued).

Cause of Death.AGES.All Ages.
0-1-5-15-25-35-45-55- 65-75-85-
SPECIFIC FEBRILE, OR ZYMOTIC DISEASE (continued).
3.—Malabial Diseases.
Remittent Fever....................................
Ague......................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases..................................
Cowpox and effects of Vaccination....................................
Other Diseases (e.g. Hydrophobia,Glanders, Splenic Fever)....................................
5.—Venebeal Diseases.
Syphilis11...........................2
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.....................1.........1
6. —Septic Diseases.....................................
Erysipelas2..................1.........3
Pyaemia, Septicaemia..................1............1
Puerperal Fever.......................................
II.—PARASITIC DISEASES.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases....................................
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases....................................
III.—DIETIC DISEASES.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation3..............................8
Scurvy....................................
Chronic Alcoholism............132............6
Delirium Tremens............2......1.........3
IV— CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart......1...............1......2
Rheumatism............1......1.........2
Gout.....................3.........4
Rickets2..............................2
Cancer, Malignant Disease............1281154...33
Tabes Mesenterica521........................8
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus884........................20
Phthisis....11101817254.........78
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula12322...1.........13
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis....................................
Anaemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia.......1........................1
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus............12...1...1...7
Other Constitutional Diseases....................................