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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1902
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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Appendix E. New List of Causes of Death as used in the Annual Reports of the Registrar-General for England and Wales.
| Small-pox | Vaccinated. | Tuberculous Phthisis (Pulmonary Tuberculosis). | |
| Not Vaccinated. | |||
| Doubtful. | |||
| Cow-pox. Effects of Vaccination. | Tuberculous Meningitis. | ||
| Chicken-pox. | Tuberculous Peritonitis. | ||
| Measles (Morbilli). | |||
| Epidemic Rose Rash, German Measles. | Lupus. | ||
| Scarlet Fever. | Tubercle of other Organs. | ||
| Typhus. | General Tuberculosis. | ||
| Plague. | |||
| Relapsing Fever. | |||
| Influenza. | Parasitic Diseases. | ||
| Whooping Cough. | Starvation. | ||
| Mumps. | Scurvy. | ||
| Diphtheria, Membranous Croup. | Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens. | ||
| Cerebro Spinal Fever. | Opium, Morphia Habit. | ||
| Simple Continued Fever. | Ptomaine Poisoning. | ||
| Enteric Fever. | Industrial Poisoning | by Lead. | |
| Asiatic Cholera. | by Phosphorus. | ||
| Epidemic Diarrhoea, Epidemic (or Zymotic) Enteritis. | by Arsenic and other Metals. | ||
| Rheumatic Fever, Acute Rheumatism. | |||
| Dysentery. | Chronic Rheumatism. | ||
| Rheumatic Arthritis, Rheumatic Gout. | |||
| Malarial Fever. | Gout. | ||
| Hydrophobia. | |||
| Glanders, Farcy. | Carcinoma. | ||
| Anthrax, Splenic Fever. | |||
| Tetanus. | Sarcoma. | ||
| Syphilis. | |||
| Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra. | Rickets. | ||
| Puerperal Septicaemia, Sapræmia. | |||
| Purpura. | |||
| Puerperal Pyaemia. | |||
| Hæmophilia, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis. | |||
| Puerperal Phlegmasia Dolens. | |||
| Anaemia, Leucocythæmia. | |||
| Diabetes Mellitus. | |||
| Infective Endocarditis. | |||
| Epidemic Pneumonia, Pneumonic Fever. | Premature Birth. | ||
| Erysipelas. | |||
| Septicæmia (not Puerperal). | Congenital Defects. | ||
| Pyæmia (not Puerperal). | Injury at Birth. | ||
| Phlegmon, Carbuncle (not Anthrax). | Atelectasis. | ||
| Phagedæna. | Want of Breast Milk. | ||
| Other Septic Diseases. | |||