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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 1905

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

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Table: TABLE 9.Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Deathand the Ages.

TABLE 9.

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

and the Ages.

Causes of Death.AGESAll Ages
0-1-510-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-
M.F.
Small Pox.............................................
(a) Vaccinated.............................................
(b) Unvaccinated.............................................
(c) No statement.............................................
Measles321183.....................1......7084
Scarlet Fever11871......1..................13...
Typhus Fever.............................................
Epidemic Influenza..................122225...77
Whooping Cough27521..............................3545
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup4326...1......1...............1925
Enteric Fever......12...143...............65
Diarrhoea, Dysentery686...1.........1...431...4539
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis889...2...........................5049
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Fever...1....................................1
Chicken Pox...1....................................1
Hydrophobia.............................................
Glanders, Farcy.............................................
Tetanus.............................................
Anthrax, Splenic Fever.............................................
Cowpox, Accidents of Vaccination.............................................
Syphilis121...............21............97
Gonorrhæa.............................................
Phagædena.....................1...............1...
Erysipelas2..................11622...104
Pyæmia, Septicæmia3......11...3222.........59
Puerperal Fever...............13.....................4
Infective Endocarditis......1...1113...2.........36
Carbuncle..............................1......1...
Malarial Fever.............................................
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart......1.........41112......55
Tuberculosis, total: Tubercular Disease of Brain or Meninges, Acute Hydrocephalus152664............2............2429
Laryngeal & Pulmonary Phthisis410751634901199056111...274169
Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Disease of Intestine1221...22221............1113
General Tuberculosis, Tubercular Disease of undefined position101941113...32.........2519
Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula1...23111151...2...108
Thrush.............................................
Actinomycosis.............................................
Hydatid Disease.............................................