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Southwark 1908

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

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Table: TABLE9.Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death at all Ages during 1908.

TABLE9.

Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death at all Ages during 1908.

Causes of Death.AGES.All Ages
0-1-510-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-
M.F.
Small Pox.............................................
(a) Vaccinated.............................................
(b) Unvaccinated.............................................
(c) No statement.............................................
.............................................
Measles14603..............................3839
Scarlet Fever41531......1..................1311
Typhus Fever.......................................
Epidemic Influenza............208315.........2621
Whooping Cough26231..............................2129
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup5252..............................1814
Enteric Fever..................411............43
Asiatic cholera.............................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery5216...............1331......4136
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis.8921..................1............6348
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Fever42.................................33
Rotheln.............................................
Hydrophobia.............................................
Glanders, Farcy..................1..................1...
Tetanus.............................................
Anthrax, Splenic Fever.............................................
Cowpox, Accidents of Vaccination.............................................
Syphilis151...1.........121.........147
Gonorrhæa.............................................
Phagsedena.....................1...............1...
Erysipelas111...1...112......47
Pyaemia, Septicaemia...1............1..................21
Puerperal Fever..................11..................2
Infective Endocarditis......112...2...11.........54
Carbuncle..................1..................1...
Cellulitis.............................................
Mastoiditis.........1......1..................2...
Tonsillitis.............................................
Malarial Fever.............................................
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart......2332...12......1...86
Tuberculosis, total :
Tubercular Disease of Brain or
Meninges, Acute Hydrocephalus1724311......1...............2324
Laryngeal & Pulmonary Phthisis101369192177958753112239164
Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Disease of Intestine1281............11............176
General Tuberculosis, Tubercular Disease of undefined position1618212.........1............1723
Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula...1...2...1......112...154
Thrush.............................................
Actinomycosis.............................................
Hydatid Disease.............................................