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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

Enfield 1904

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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Table: Classifying the causes of death, and giving the three preceding years for comparison, we have as follows:—

Classifying the causes of death, and giving the three preceding years for comparison, we have as follows:—

1904190319021901
Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases177899287
Parasitic Diseases1001
Dietic Diseases4320
Constitutional Diseases107989568
Developmental Diseases108737656
Local Diseases192275298264
Deaths from Violence20102522
Deaths from ill-defined and non-specified causes222026
Total641550608524

Table: The Zymotic death-rate was 3.5 per 1,000. The following table shows the deaths of residents from the chief zymotic diseases during the last five years:—

The Zymotic death-rate was 3.5 per 1,000. The following table shows the deaths of residents from the chief zymotic diseases during the last five years:—

19041903190219011900
Whooping Cough18197715
Scarlatina38284
Diphtheria164725
Measles6134135
Enteric Fever3413911
Epidemic Enteritis10527343569
There were 29 deaths from cancer; 42 from