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 Shoreditch]
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TABLE XXX.
ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the Parish at the Public Dispensary
| Diseases. | Diseases. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes | 4690 | 88 Congenital malformations | — | |
| 39 Old age | 177 | |||
| ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | 40 Apoplexy | 2 | ||
| Small Pox | Vaccinated | — | 41 Epilepsy | 26 |
| 42 Convulsions | 8 | |||
| Unvaccinated | — | |||
| 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 162 | |||
| No Statement | — | |||
| 2 Measles | 93 | |||
| 3 Scarlet fever | 25 | |||
| 44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 59 | |||
| 4 Typhus | — | |||
| 5 Relapsing fever | — | |||
| 45 Diseases of circulatory system | 155 | |||
| 6 Influenza | 262 | |||
| 7 Whooping Cough | 50 | 46 Laryngitis | 5 | |
| 8 Diphtheria | 7 | 1122 | ||
| 9 Simple, Continued and illdefined fever | 28 | 48 Pneumonia | 44 | |
| 49 Pleurisy | 14 | |||
| 10 Enteric fever | 6 | 50 Other respiratory diseases | 55 | |
| 11 Simple cholera | — | |||
| 51 Dentition | 13 | |||
| 12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery | 166 | |||
| 13 Remittent fever | — | 52 Quinzy, sore throat | 44 | |
| 14 Hydrophobia | — | 53 Enteritis | 14 | |
| 15 Glanders | — | 54 Peritonitis | 6 | |
| 16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination | __ | 55 Diseases of liver | 29 | |
| 56 Other diseases of digestive system | 289 | |||
| 17 Venereal affections | 36 | |||
| 18 Erysipelas | 13 | |||
| 57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 7 | |||
| 19 Pyaemia and Septiæmia | — | |||
| 20 Puerperal fever | 1 | |||
| 21 Tabes Mesenterica | — | |||
| 58 Diseases of urinary system | 46 | |||
| 22 Tubercular Meningitis | — | |||
| 23 Phthisis | 179 | 59 Diseases of generative system | 60 | |
| 24 Scrofula, Tuberculosis | 17 | |||
| 60 Accidents of childbirth | 14 | |||
| 25 Other Zymotic diseases | 43 | |||
| 26 Thrush | — | 61 Diseases of locomotive system | 151 | |
| 27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | 10 | |||
| 62 Diseases of integumentary system | 102 | |||
| 28 Starvation,want of breast-milk | 4 | |||
| VIOLENCE.—4 ccident. | ||||
| 29 Alcoholism | 15 | |||
| 30 Rheumatic fever and Rheumatism of heart | 18 | 63 Fracture and contusion | 26 | |
| 64 Gun shot wounds | — | |||
| 81 Rheumatism | 257 | 65 Cut, stab | 1 | |
| 32 Gout | 48 | 66 Burn or scald | 5 | |
| 33 Rickets | 3 | 67 Poison | 5 | |
| 34 Cancer | 15 | 68 Drowning | — | |
| 35 Other constitutional diseases | 59 | 69 Suffocation | — | |
| 70 Otherwise | 54 | |||
| 36 Premature birth | — | |||
| 71 Other Causes | 635 | |||
| 37 Atelectasis | — | |||