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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 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Borough of ]

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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-
SPECIAL FEBRILE, OR ZYMOTIC DISEASE (continued).
3.—Malarial Diseased
Remittent Fever....................................
Ague............1..................1
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and effects of Vaccination....................................
Other Diseases (e.g.. Hydrophobia,Glanders, 1 Splenic Fever)....................................
5.—Vbnebeal Diseases.
Syphilis3.........1...1............5
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra........................1......1
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas2......1...11......1...6
Pyaemia, Septicaemia...1.........1...............2
Puerperal Fever....................................
II-PARASITIC DISEASES.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases....................................
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases....................................
III.—DIETIC DISEASES.
Want of lJreast Milk, Starvation1..............................1
Scurvy....................................
Chronic Alcoholism............121............4
Delirium Tremens...............3...............3
IV.—CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart......1......22...2......7
Rheumatism.....................11......2
Gout...............1......2......3
Rickets11...........................2
Cancer, Malignant Disease............1399123138
Tabes Mesenterica71...........................8
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus565........................16
Phthisis......11227111984......82
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula331...141......1...14
Purpura, Haemorrhagic Diathesis........................1......1
Anaemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythaeinia...............11............2
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus.........2.........2.........4
Other Constitutional Diseases....................................