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Southwark 1921

[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 1921.

TABLE 9.

Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death at all Ages during 1921.

Causes of Death.AGES.All Ages
0-1-2-510-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-M.F.
Small Pox................................................
(a) Vaccinated................................................
(b) Unvaccinated................................................
(c) No statement................................................
Measles...33.................................42
Scarlet Fever11351......11...............58
Typhus Fever................................................
Epidemic Influenza1...1114...5977103...2425
Whooping Cough91441..............................1414
Diphtheria, Membranous Croupl5915..............................1515
Enteric Fever........................1..................1
Asiatic Cholera................................................
Diarrhœa, Dysentery51...........................2......26
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis103213.....................35......8352
Epidemic Cerebro - Spinal Fever21....................................21
Polio Myelitis................................................
Chicken Pox................................................
Rötheln................................................
Parotitis................................................
Vincent's Angina................................................
Goitre................................................
Trench Fever.............................................
Encephalitis Lethargica............12.........21.........42
Hydrophobia................................................
Glanders, Farcy................................................
Tetanus1.......................................1...
Anthrax, Splenic Fever................................................
Cowpox, Accidents of Vaccination................................................
Syphilis8........................2............37
Gonorrhœa................................................
Phagædena................................................
Erysipelas...........................111......21
Pyæmia, Septicæmia2.........1.........11...1......33
Puerperal Fever..................131..................5
Infective Endocarditis...............15411121...79
Carbuncle..............................112...22
Boils................................................
Cellulitis..............................11......3...
Mastoiditis2.........1...............1............4
Tonsillitis...11...1........................12
Empyema of Antrum................................................
Malarial Fever...........................1............1...
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart.........1.........41...l51...94