Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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Showing the Distribution of the Deaths in the Northern and Southern Divisions of the Borough during each of the quarters of the year 1906.
Diseases. | North. | South. | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Quarters. | Total. | Quarters. | Total. | |||||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
Measles | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 4 | 2 | .. | 10 |
Scarlet Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
Whooping- cough | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Enteric Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Epidemic Influenza | 3 | .. | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | •• | 1 | 4 |
Diarrhoea | 1 | •• | 2 | •• | 3 | .. | 1 | 18 | 4 | 23 |
Enteritis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
Erysipelas | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 3 |
Other Septic Diseases | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
Phthisis | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 37 |
Other Tubercular Diseases | 2 | 1 | •• | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
Cancer | 5 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 23 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 25 |
Bronchitis | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 18 | 47 |
Pneumonia | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 20 |
Other Respiratory Diseases | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 6 | .. | 2 | 17 |
Alcoholism and Cirrhosis | 3 | 2 | .. | .. | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | .. | 12 |
Venereal Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 |
Diseases of the Nervous | 3 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 28 |
System. Premature Birth | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 16 |
Heart Disease | 2 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 7 | 20 | 8 | 15 | 50 |
Accidents | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
Suicides | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Old Age | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 32 |
All other Causes | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 20 | 9 | 16 | 28 | 18 | 71 |
Totals | 39 | 45 | 35 | 40 | 159 | 118 | 117 | 106 | 110 | 451 |