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Southwark 1917

[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 1917.

TABLE 9.

Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death at all Ages during 1917.

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.............................................
Measles18552..............................4035
Scarlet Fever132..............................43
Typhus Fever.............................................
Epidemic Influenza21...............14...4......1210
Whooping Cough9224..............................1520
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup430831........................2917
Enteric Fever.........11...11...............32
Asiatic Cholera.............................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery2012............121...2......2818
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis348...1..................1......2321
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Fever72...2l........................75
Anterior Polio Mvelitis......1.................................1
Trench Fever...........................1.........1...
Hydrophobia.............................................
Glanders, Farcy................................................
Tetanus...1....................................1
Anthrax, Splenic Fever.....................1..................1...
Cowpox, Accidents of Vaccination.............................................
Syphilis12..................1111......115
Gonorrhrea.............................................
Phagedena..........................................
Erysipelas12............11183......57
Pytemia, Septicfemia211...............21.........34
Puerperal Fever.....................1..................1
Infective Endocarditis5.........1......31............37
Carbuncle...................................................
Enlarged Thymus Gland5....................................14
Acute Mastoditis1......1..............................2
Malarial Fever..........................................
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart............1......1...252...47
Tuberculosis, total:.............................................
Tubercular Disease of Brain or Meninges Acute Hydrocephalus Laryngeal& Pulmonale Phthisis9 223 1114 116 142 273359906753205...28 24026 152
Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Disease of Intestine54422......1.........1...118
General Tuberculosis, Tubercular Disease of undefined position3423...1.........1...............
Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula...2122212...222...135
Thrush.............................................
Actinomycosis.............................................
Hydatid Disease................................................