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Shoreditch 1900

[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 during the Year ending December 31s t, 1900.

Diseases.Diseases.
All Causes3,26788 Congenital malformations1
1 Small PoxVaccinated139 Old age185
Unvaccinated—40 Apoplexy9
No Statement-41 Epilepsy33
2 Measles6342 Convulsions3
3 Scarlet fever643 Other diseases of brain and nervous system183
4 Typhus—
5 Relapsing fever—44 Diseases of organs of special sense12
6 Influenza132
7 Whooping Cough27
8 Diphtheria545 Diseases of circulatory system185
9 Simple, Continued and ill-defined fever846 Laryngitis5
47 Bronchitis809
10 Enteric fever3
4 8 Pneumonia58
11 Simple cholera—49 Pleurisy7
12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery52
50 Other respiratory diseases42
13 Remittent fever—
14 Hydrophobia—51 Dentition5
15 Glanders—52 Quinzy, sore throat26
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination-58 Enteritis21
54 Peritonitis2
17 Venereal affections2255 Diseases of liver16
18 Erysipelas—56 Other diseases of digestive system162
19 Pysemia and Septicaemia4
20 Puerperal fever—
57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands5
21 Tabes Mesenterica1
22 Tubercular Meningitis2
23 Phthisis143
58 Diseases of urinary system35
24 Scrofula, Tuberculosis21
25 Other Zymotic diseases2559 Diseases of generative system18
26 Thrush-60 Accidents of childbirth5
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases4
61 Diseases of locomotive system153
62 Diseases of integumentary system71
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk1
29 Alcoholism9
INJURIES.—
30 Rheumatic fever and Rheumatism of heart20
63 Fracture and contusion10
64 Gun shot wounds—
81 Rheumatism253
65 Cut, stab2
32 Gout46
66 Burn or scald2
83 Rickets1
67 Poison5
34 Cancer83
68 Drowning—
35 Other constitutional diseases61
69 Suffocation—
70 Otherwise88
36 Premature birth-
71 Other Causes316
37 Atelectasis-