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 1908.
Disease. | North. | South | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Quarters. | Total. | Quarters. | Total. | |||||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
Measles | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 4 | 3 | .. | 10 |
Scarlet Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 6 |
Whooping-cough | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 6 |
Diphtheria and Membranous | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
Croup Enteric Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 3 |
Epidemic Influenza | 5 | 1 | .. | 1 | 7 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 7 |
Diarrhoea | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
Enteritis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 |
Erysipelas | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 |
Other Septic Diseases | 3 | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 3 |
Phthisis | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 47 |
Other Tubercular Diseases | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 |
Cancer | 4 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 25 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 41 |
Bronchitis | 9 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 30 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 58 |
Pneumonia | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 |
Other Respiratory Diseases | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 |
Alcoholism and Cirrhosis | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 |
Venereal Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 2 |
Diseases of the Nervous System Premature Birth | 5 | 4 2 | 2 | 5 | 16 2 | 8 4 | 6 1 | 10 5 | 10 3 | 34 13 |
Heart Disease | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 19 | 61 |
Accidents | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
Suicides | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Old age | 8 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 41 |
All other Causes | 19 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 39 | 20 | 14 | 13 | 27 | 74 |
Totals | 70 | 42 | 30 | 45 | 187 | 153 | 100 | 93 | 125 | 471 |