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Shoreditch 1857

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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TABLEI.Deaths Registered in the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, in the13Weeks ending September 26th, 1857.

Causes of Death.Under 1 yearUnder 5Under 2020 and under 4040 and under 6060 and under 8080 and aboveTotal.
All Causes2471855968958514753
I. Zymotic Class.
309Small-pox224
Chicken-pox11
Measles5201127
Scarlatina315151135
Hooping Cough1535252
Croup2417
Thrush55
Diarrhœa67261367110
Dysentery3115
Cholera1113
Influenza
Ague
Remittent Fever112
Infantile Fever
Typhus171371111151
Metria (Child bed fever)
Rheumatic Fever112
Erysipelas123
Syphilis22
Noma
Hydrophobia
II. Dropsy, &c.:
27Hæmorrhagel1
Dropsy639
Abscess
Ulcer123
Fistula
Mortification11
Cancer362112
Gout11
III. Tubercular Class;
157Scrofula141118
Tabes Mesenterica1617336
Phthisis (Lung Consumption)118103422994
Hydrocephalus (Water on the Brain10919
IV. Brain, Nerves, &e.:
59Cephalitis41117
Apoplexy13419
Paralysis41117
Delirium Tremens
Chorea
Epilepsy123
Tetanus
Insanity1113
Convulsions17623
Disease of Brain, &c.:41117
9V. Disease of Heart and Blood Vessels11529
VI. Respiratory Organs:
66Laryngitis213
Bronchitis522235120
Pleurisy11
Pneumonia151413235
Asthma224
Disease of Lungs &c.....33