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St George (Southwark) 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]

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Annnal Report of the Medical Officer of Health—1895. 73

Table: Table III.Corrected Return of Cause of Death of Infants under One Year in the Registration Sub-Districts during the 52 Weeks ending December 31st, 1895.

Table III.

Corrected Return of Cause of Death of Infants under One Year in the Registration Sub-Districts during the 52 Weeks ending December 31st, 1895.

CAUSE OF DEATH.Borough roadlondon roadKent Road.
I.—Specific. Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small-pox.........
Measles423
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina).........
Diphtheria.........
Whooping-Cough1488
Typhus Fever.........
Enteric or Typhoid Fever.........
Simple Continued and Ill-defined Fever.........
Other Miasmatic Diseases.........
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera.........
Diarrhoea, Dysentery171410
3.—Malarial Diseases.
e.g., Remittent Fever, Ague).........
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and effects of Vaccination.........
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, and Splenic Fever).........
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis.........
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.........
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas.........
Pyaemia, Septicaemia.........
Puerperal Fever.........
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush.........
Hydatids and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.........
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Starvation and Want of Breast Milk.........
Scurvy.........
Chronic Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens.........
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism of the Heart..........
Rheumatism.........
Gout.........
Rickets.........
Cancer, Malignant Disease.........
Tabes Mesenterica1269
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus325
Phthisis.........
Other Tubercular and Scrofulous Diseases653
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis............
Anemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia.........
Glycosuria, Diabetes, Mellitus.........
Other Constitutional Diseases.........
Carried forward563738