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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

Southwark 1903

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

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Table: TABLE 7.—Continued.

TABLE 7.—Continued.

Causes of Death.AGES.All Ages
0-1-5-10-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-M.F.
.....................1...............1...
Ptomaine Poisoning.............................................
Chronic Alcoholism..................7497.........1710
Acute Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens..................251............53
Lead Poisoning..........................................
Osteo-arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis........................1...21114
Gout..............................1......1...
Cancer, Malignant Disease...2............102040593211386100
Diabetes Mellitus..................32734......136
Purpura Hæmorrhagica...1........................1......11
Hæmophilia.............................................
Anæmia, Leucocythæmia...2.........1...22............43
Lymphadenoma, Hodgkin's Disease...........................1............1
Sarcoma.........1.........134.........45
Premature Birth129....................................7455
Debility at Birth35....................................2414
Injury at Birth1.......................................1
Congenital Defects19....................................910
Want of Breast Milk11..............................2...
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1397..................12...1...7575
Dentition179.................................1610
Rickets451..............................64
Old Age, Senile Decay...........................23373124773
Convulsions459......1......1.........2...3424
Meningitis161562.........22...1......2420
Apoplexy............1218202427834252
Softening of Brain...............1244413411518
Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis..................213463...415
Cerebral Abscess, &c..........1111...1...1.........2
Insanity, General Paralysis of Insane..................61292.........236
Other forms of Insanity............1.........1...............1
Cerebral Tumour...1..................11...............
Chorea......1....................................
Epilepsy......1...4...1241...............
Laryngismus Stridulus................................................
Locomotor Ataxy..................1...11.........21
Paraplegia, Disease of Spinal Cord.........1...1...113.........43
Otitis, Ofcorrhæa13222211...............68
Epistaxis, Diseases of Nose.............................................
Ophthalmia, Disease of Eye.............................................