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Southwark 1923

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

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Table: TABLE 7. Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death at all Ages during 1923.

TABLE 7. Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death at all Ages during 1923.

Causes of Death.AGES.All Ages
0-1-2-5-10-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-M.F.
Small Pox................................................
(a) Vaccinated................................................
(h) Unvaccinated................................................
(c) No statement................................................
Measles247.................................58
Scarlet. Fever...13.................................13
Typhus Fever................................................
Epidemic Influenza............11...14174311312
Whooping Cough10116.................................1710
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup361817311.....................1831
Enteric Fever...............1.........1............11
Asiatic Cholera................................................
Diarrhæa, Dysentery133....................................106
Epidemic or Zymotic En-teritis284............1.....................249
Epidemic Cerebro - Spinal Fever3......1..............................31
Polio Myelitis................................................
Chicken Fox...1.......................................1
Rotheln................................................
Parotitis................................................
Vincent's Angina................................................
Goitre................................................
Trench Fever................................................
Encephalitis Lethargica...1.........11111............15
Hydrophobia................................................
Glanders, Farcy................................................
Tetanus................................................
Anthrax, Splenic Fever................................................
Cowpox, Accidents of Vac-cination................................................
Syphilis4..................l...1............33
Gonorrhæa................................................
Phagtedena................................................
Erysipelas..................l......12.........31
Pyaemia, Septicaemia...1...............l............1...21
Puerperal Fever.....................11..................2
Infective Endocarditis.........11...222...1.........73
Carbuncle................................................
Boils................................................
Cellulitis1............1.........2......1...32
Mastoiditis......1...1......2...1............32
Tonsillitis................................................
Malarial Fever................................................
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart......l31...112...211...58