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Southwark 1903

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

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Table: TABLE 7.Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Deathand the Ages.

TABLE 7.

Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death

and the Ages.

Causes of Death.AGES.All Ages
0-1-5-10-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-M.F
Small Pox.............................................
(a) Vaccinated.............................................
(b) Unvaccinated.............................................
(c) No statement.............................................
Measles10685..............................3845
Scarlet Fever211311........................108
Typhus Fever.............................................
Epidemic Influenza13............329......4...1612
Whooping Cough30343............1...............2345
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup4181..............................1211
Enteric Fever.........52...641............158
Asiatic Cholera.............................................
Diarrhæa, Dysentery741011......14.........2...5938
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis9091..............................6040
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal FeverI.....................1............2...
Hydrophobia.............................................
Glanders, Farcy.............................................
Tetanus.............................................
Anthrax, Splenic Fever..........................................
Cowpox, Accidents of Vaccination.............................................
Syphilis16...............122............1011
Gonorrhæa.............................................
Phagædena..................1..................1...
Erysipelas............2...1...2...11...61
Pyæmia, Septiæmia............1...411121...74
Puerperal Fever...............13.....................6
Infective Endocarditis.........2112......1.........34
Carbuncle.............................................
Malarial Fever.............................................
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart...112........1...............5
Tuberculosis, total:
Tubercular Disease of Brain or Meninges, Acute Hydrocephalus1525125.........11............3128
Laryngeal & Pulmonary Phthisis58952436102137100461761296200
Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Disease of Intestine432122...12......1.........3537
General Tuberculosis, Tubercular Disease of undefined position111281...12...3...1......2217
Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula31221...1111...1...104
Thrush.............................................
Actinomycosis.............................................
Hydatid Disease.............................................