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Southwark 1914

[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 at all Ages during1914.

TABLE 9.

Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death at all Ages during1914.

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.............................................
Measles167431...1.....................3956
Scarlet Fever1126...11...1...............1210
Typhus Fever.............................................
Epidemic Influenza...1...l......6455511209
Whooping Cough27802..............................2435
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup7243...111..................2116
Enteric Fever......1............1...............11
Asiatic Cholera.............................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery81102...............2243...6143
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis8714..................11.........6340
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Fever31...1.........1...............33
Vincent's Angina.........l...........................1...
Parotitis1...........................1.........2
Polio Myelitis...12..............................12
Exophthalmic Goitre...............1........................1
Hydrophobia.............................................
Glanders, Farcy.............................................
Tetanus.............................................
Anthrax, Splenic Fever..................11...............2...
Cowpox, Accidents of Vaccination.............................................
Syphilis101..................1............66
Gonorrhæa.............................................
Phagædena.............................................
Erysipelas1.........2......14141...86
Pyaemia, Septicemia321.........3...221......68
Puerperal Fever............1423..................10
Infective Endocarditis...............111...1.........22
Carbuncle.....................1......21...13
Mastoiditis2....................................2...
Malarial Fever.............................................
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart...1...21...121121...66
Tuberculosis, total:
Tubercular Disease of Brain or Meninges, Acute Hydrocephalus10240391...2...2.........2627
Laryngeal & Pulmonary Phthisis1646203466735546172...209121
Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Disease of Intestine4341......11...11......88
General Tuberculosis, Tubercular Disease of undefined position1421.........1...............54
Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula26...1...22...33.........136
Thrush.............................................
Actinomycosis.............................................
Hydatid Disease.............................................