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 VII.
ANALYSIS of the Cases Teeated by the District Medical Officers oF the Borough
Diseases. | Diseases. | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All Causes | 3,383 | 38 | Congenital malformations | - | ||
1 | Small Pox | (Vaccinated | - | 39 | Old age | 101 |
- Unvaccinated | - | 40 | Apoplexy | 9 | ||
(No Statement | - | 41 | Epilepsy | 27 | ||
2 | Measles | 52 | 42 | Convulsions ... | 5 | |
3 | Scarlet fever | 14 | 43 | Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 159 | |
4 | Typhus | |||||
5 | Relapsing fever | - | 44 | Diseases of organs of special sense | 13 | |
6 | Influenza | 75 | ||||
7 | Whooping Cough | 22 | ||||
45 | Diseases of circulatory system | 127 | ||||
8 | Diphtheria | 4 | ||||
9 | Simple, Continued and ill-defined fever | 5 | 46 | Laryngitis | 4 | |
47 | Bronchitis | 872 | ||||
10 | Enteric fever | 3 | ||||
48 | Pneumonia | 81 | ||||
11 | Simple cholera | - | ||||
49 | Pleurisy | 17 | ||||
12 | Diarrhoea, Dysentery | 57 | ||||
50 | Other respiratory diseases | 29 | ||||
13 | Remittent fever | - | ||||
14 | Hydrophobia. | - | 51 | Dentition | 3 | |
15 | Glanders | - | 52 | Quinzy, sore thrOat | 17 | |
16 | Cow pox and effects of vaccination | - | 53 | Enteritis | 23 | |
54 | Peritonitis | - | ||||
17 | Venereal affections | 37 | 55 | Diseases of liver | 15 | |
18 | Erysipelas | 19 | 56 | Other diseases of digestive system | 163 | |
19 | Pyæmia and Septicæmia | - | ||||
20 | Puerperal fever | - | ||||
57 | Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 8 | ||||
21 | Tabes Mesenterica | |||||
22 | Tubercular Meningitis | - | ||||
23 | Phthisis | 186 | ||||
58 | Diseases of urinary system | 36 | ||||
24 | Scrofula, Tuberculosis | 12 | ||||
25 | Other Zymotic diseases | 18 | 59 | Diseases of generative system | 17 | |
26 | Thrush | - | 60 | Accidents of childbirth | 12 | |
27 | Worms and other parasitic diseases | - | ||||
61 | Diseases of locomotive system | 148 | ||||
28 | Starvation,want of breast-milk | - | 62 | Diseases of integumentary system | 117 | |
29 | Alcoholism | - | ||||
INJURIES.— | ||||||
30 | Rheumatic fever and Rheumatism of heart | 39 | ||||
63 | Fracture and contusion | 23 | ||||
64 | Gun shot wounds | - | ||||
31 | Rheumatism | 291 | ||||
65 | Cut, stab | - | ||||
32 | Gout | 35 | ||||
66 | Burn or scald | 8 | ||||
33 | Rickets | 2 | ||||
67 | Poison... | 4 | ||||
34 | Cancer | 31 | ||||
68 | Drowning | - | ||||
35 | Other constitutional diseases | 60 | ||||
69 | Suffocation | - | ||||
36 | Premature birth | 70 | Otherwise | 84 | ||
37 | Atelectasis | - | 71 | Other Causes | 399 |