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Southwark 1915

[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 during 1915.

TABLE 9.

Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death at all Ages during 1915.

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.............................................
Measles30964...1........................5972
Scarlet Fever1821...........................93
Typhus Fever.............................................
Epidemic Influenza21......1124...344...1612
Whooping Cough17281..............................2126
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup3171421........................1126
Enteric Fever...1............1......1............3
Asiatic Cholera.............................................
Diarrhæa, Dysentery6416...............2...721...5144
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis458...............1...............2925
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Fever6531...........................88
Polio Myelitis...1....................................1
Chicken Pox...1.................................1...
Hydrophobia.............................................
Glanders, Farcy.............................................
Tetanus.............................................
Anthrax, Splenic Fever.............................................
Cowpox, Accidents of Vaccination.............................................
Syphilia91.........1...1...11......104
gonorrhæa.............................................
Phagædena.............................................
Erysipelas1...............21...342...94
Pyæmia, Septicæmia112.........1...2.........25
Puerperal Fever............1131..................6
Infective Endocarditis1...3......12......1.........16
Carbuncle...........................1...1...2...
Mastoiditis...11......1........................2
Ludwig's Angina.............................................
Enlarged Thymus Gland1..........................................
Cellulitis.............................................
Malarial Fever.............................................
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Hear......13...2131...1......66
Tuberculosis, total: Tubercular Disease of Brain or Mening, Acute Hydrocephalus1526129932......2.........3536
Laryngeal & Pulmonary Phthisis41271221227288895083...255133
Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Disease of Intestine27241........................106
General Tuberculosis, Tubercular Disease of undefined position61131...211...2.........189
Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula...22.........111......2...45
Thrush.............................................
Actinomycosis........................1..................
Hydatid disease.............................................