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 VIII.
ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the
Borough
| Diseases. | Diseases. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes | 3,267 | 88 Congenital malformations | 1 | |
| 1 Small Pox | Vaccinated | 1 | 39 Old age | 185 |
| Unvaccinated | — | 40 Apoplexy | 9 | |
| No Statement | - | 41 Epilepsy | 33 | |
| 2 Measles | 63 | 42 Convulsions | 3 | |
| 3 Scarlet fever | 6 | 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 183 | |
| 4 Typhus | — | |||
| 5 Relapsing fever | — | 44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 12 | |
| 6 Influenza | 132 | |||
| 7 Whooping Cough | 27 | |||
| 8 Diphtheria | 5 | 45 Diseases of circulatory system | 185 | |
| 9 Simple, Continued and ill-defined fever | 8 | 46 Laryngitis | 5 | |
| 47 Bronchitis | 809 | |||
| 10 Enteric fever | 3 | |||
| 4 8 Pneumonia | 58 | |||
| 11 Simple cholera | — | 49 Pleurisy | 7 | |
| 12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery | 52 | |||
| 50 Other respiratory diseases | 42 | |||
| 13 Remittent fever | — | |||
| 14 Hydrophobia | — | 51 Dentition | 5 | |
| 15 Glanders | — | 52 Quinzy, sore throat | 26 | |
| 16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination | - | 58 Enteritis | 21 | |
| 54 Peritonitis | 2 | |||
| 17 Venereal affections | 22 | 55 Diseases of liver | 16 | |
| 18 Erysipelas | — | 56 Other diseases of digestive system | 162 | |
| 19 Pysemia and Septicaemia | 4 | |||
| 20 Puerperal fever | — | |||
| 57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 5 | |||
| 21 Tabes Mesenterica | 1 | |||
| 22 Tubercular Meningitis | 2 | |||
| 23 Phthisis | 143 | |||
| 58 Diseases of urinary system | 35 | |||
| 24 Scrofula, Tuberculosis | 21 | |||
| 25 Other Zymotic diseases | 25 | 59 Diseases of generative system | 18 | |
| 26 Thrush | - | 60 Accidents of childbirth | 5 | |
| 27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | 4 | |||
| 61 Diseases of locomotive system | 153 | |||
| 62 Diseases of integumentary system | 71 | |||
| 28 Starvation, want of breast-milk | 1 | |||
| 29 Alcoholism | 9 | |||
| INJURIES.— | ||||
| 30 Rheumatic fever and Rheumatism of heart | 20 | |||
| 63 Fracture and contusion | 10 | |||
| 64 Gun shot wounds | — | |||
| 81 Rheumatism | 253 | |||
| 65 Cut, stab | 2 | |||
| 32 Gout | 46 | |||
| 66 Burn or scald | 2 | |||
| 83 Rickets | 1 | |||
| 67 Poison | 5 | |||
| 34 Cancer | 83 | |||
| 68 Drowning | — | |||
| 35 Other constitutional diseases | 61 | |||
| 69 Suffocation | — | |||
| 70 Otherwise | 88 | |||
| 36 Premature birth | - | |||
| 71 Other Causes | 316 | |||
| 37 Atelectasis | - | |||