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 Treated by the Disteict Medical Officers of the Borough during the Year ending December 31,sf, 1902.
| Diseases. | Diseases. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes | 3,403 | 88 | Congenital malformations | - | |
| 1 | Small-pox | 28 | 39 | Old age | 102 |
| 2 | Measles | 55 | 40 | Apoplexy | 13 |
| 3 | Scarlet fever | 3 | 41 | Epilepsy | 20 |
| 4 | Typhus | — | 42 | Convulsions | 4 |
| 5 | Relapsing fever | — | 43 | Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 127 |
| 6 | Influenza | 67 | |||
| 7 | Whooping cough | 26 | 44 | Diseases of organs of special sense | Q |
| 8 | Diphtheria | 4 | |||
| 9 | Simple, continued and ill-defined fever | 10 | 45 | Diseases of circulatory system | 168 |
| 10 | Enteric fever | 5 | 46 | Laryngitis | 5 |
| 11 | Simple cholera | — | 47 | Bronchitis | 847 |
| 12 | Diarrhoea, dysentery | 34 | 48 | Pneumonia | 33 |
| 13 | Remittent fever | — | 49 | Pleurisy | 31 |
| 14 | Hydrophobia | — | 50 | Other respiratory diseases | 40 |
| 15 | Glanders | — | |||
| 16 | Cow pox and effects of vaccination | __ | 51 | Dentition | 3 |
| 52 | Quinzy, sore throat | 33 | |||
| 17 | Venereal affections | 19 | 53 | Enteritis | 34 |
| 18 | Erysipelas | 10 | 54 | Peritonitis | 1 |
| 19 | Pyemia and septicaemia | — | 55 | Diseases of liver | 14 |
| 20 | Puerperal fever | 3 | 56 | Other diseases of digestive system | 177 |
| 21 | Tabes mesenterica | — | |||
| 22 | Tuberculous meningitis | — | |||
| 23 | Phthisis | 189 | 57 | Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 7 |
| 24 | Scrofula, tuberculosis | 9 | |||
| 25 | Other zymotic diseases | 23 | 58 | Diseases of urinary system | 35 |
| 26 | Thrush | 11 | 59 | Diseases of generative system | 26 |
| 27 | Worms and other parasitic diseases | 2 | 60 | Accidents of childbirth | 14 |
| 61 | Diseases of locomotive system | 139 | |||
| 28 | Starvation,want of breast-milk | _ | |||
| 62 | Diseases of integumentary system | 85 | |||
| 29 | Alcoholism | 29 | |||
| 30 | Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart | 17 | INJURIES.— | ||
| 63 | Fracture and contusion | 12 | |||
| 31 | Rheumatism | 266 | 64 | Gun shot wounds | — |
| 32 | Gout | 35 | 65 | Cut, stab | 1 |
| 83 | Rickets | 2 | 66 | Burn or scald | 2 |
| 34 | Cancer | 12 | 67 | Poison | 6 |
| 35 | Other constitutional diseases | 49 | 68 | Drowning | — |
| 69 | Suffocation | _ | |||
| 70 | Otherwise | 73 | |||
| 36 | Premature birth | _ | |||
| 37 | Atelectasis | — | 71 | Other causes | 415 |