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Southwark 1906

[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 Death and the Ages.

TABLE 9.

Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death and the Ages.

Causes of Death.AGESAll Ages
0-1-5-10-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-M.F.
Small Pox............................................
(a) Vaccinated..........................................
(b) Unvaccinated..........................................
(c) No statement...........................................
Measles20741..............................4649
Scarlet Fever...3383...1.....................2421
Typhus Fever...........................................
Epidemic Influenza......1...2...153523...1012
Whooping Cough21321..............................2331
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup5197.............................1714
Enteric Fever...1213212...............75
Diarrhœa, Dysentery63111.........113...3214640
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis11323............1.........11...7366
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Fever.............................................
Chicken Pox......1..............................1...
Ptomaine Poisoning.........1...............1.........2...
Glanders, Farcy...........................................
Tetanus1.......................................1
Anthrax, Splenic Fever.............................................
Cowpox, Accidents of Vaccination.............................................
Syphilis611............21...1......39
Gonorrhæa..........................................
Erysipelas22......1212122.....105
Pyaemia, Septicæmia..................32222......29
Puerperal Fever...............12.....................3
Infective Endocarditis......1...1...1121.........43
Carbuncle........................1............1...
Cellulitis1.....................11........21
Malarial Fever...........................................
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart......23...115...1.........58
Tuberculosis, total:
Tubercular Disease of Brain or Meninges, Acute Hydrocephalus16426...11.....................3630
Laryngeal & Pulmonary Phthisis76331928821299838124...274155
Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Disease of Intestine124...3...11..................138
General Tuberculosis, Tubercular Disease of undefined position10125...95...2...............2518
Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula1...122121111......49
Thrush.............................................
Actinomycosis............................................
Hydatid Disease............................................