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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

Shoreditch 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: table vi.summary of the deaths in the metropolitan borough of shoreditch, and in each of the registration sub-districts, for the year 1900.

table vi.

summary of the deaths in the metropolitan borough of shoreditch, and in each of the registration sub-districts, for the year 1900.

CAUSES OF DEATH.DEATHS IN EACH SUB-DISTRICT.
Shoreditch South.Hoxton New Town.Hoxton Old Town.Haggerston.Total.
I.—ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1. Miasmatic Diseases36815192260
2. Diarrliceal „20503564169
3. Malarial „...............
4. Zoogenous „...............
5. Tuberculous „448273144343
6. Venereal „2158
7. Septic „562821
Total Zymotic Diseases107219162313801
II.—PARASITIC DISEASES......1...1
III.—DIETETIC „384520
IV.—CONSTITUTIONAL„1418223589
V.—LOCAL DISEASES. 1. Diseases of the Nervous System60536986268
2. „ Circulatory24413070165
3. „ „ Respiratory Organs111114105230560
4.„ „ Digestive22282153124
5.„ Urinary2120153288
6. „ „ Generative System12227
7. „„ Bones and Joints2...114
8. „„ Integumentary System.........22
9. „ „ Organs of Special Sense1...113
10. „ „ Glandular Organs1.........1
Total Deaths Local Diseases2432582414771222
VI.—DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES45325483214
VII.—VIOLENT DEATHS
1. Accident or Negligence1828173194
2. Homicide...............
3. Suicide112610
Total Violent Deaths19291937104
VIII.—CAUSES ILL-DEFINED12333050125
Total Deaths from all causes44359753610002576