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Shoreditch 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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TABLE IV.

BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.

Causes of, and ages at, death during Year 1903.

Causes of Death.Deaths in or belonging to whole District at subjoined Ages.Deaths in or belonging to localities at all AgesTotal Deaths InPublic Institutions in the District
All Ages.Under 1.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwardsShore-ditch SouthHox- ton New Town.Hox- ton Old Town.Haggerston.
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Small-pox....................................
Measles9930663.........750172511
Scarlet fever7...34.........1321...
Whooping-cough4114252.........3128181
Diphtheria and membranous croup21417............43311...
Croup1...1...............1.........
FeverTyphus....................................
Enteric13......274...24252
Other contd.....................................
Epidemic influenza19121...12329354
Cholera....................................
Plague....................................
Diarrhcea (see notes below)14311723......21183935512
Enteritis (see notes below)66529...12242718178
Puerperal fever1............1......1.........
Erysipelas73.........312212...
Other septic diseases2234348...311354
Phthisis271378282187396255115146
Other tuberculous diseases10539371421211226254219
Cancer, malignant disease98......1268271720263583
Bronchitis18744152155703048436697
Pneumonia17940533460192243377737
Pleurisy61...1...4......1143
Other diseases of Respiratory organs8.........15214...34
Alcoholism45............396111191422
Cirrhosis of liver
Venereal diseases....................................
Premature birth7979...............721203118
Diseases and accidents of parturition5.........14......3...2...
Heart diseases1392151181392331265971
Accidents9237135125111219214015
Suicides12.........110145...34
All other causes614207311712174173117135144218330
All Causes22806763077176787363341591499849832

Notes.—(a) In this Table all deaths o "residents" occurring in public institutions, whether within
or without the district, have been included with the other deaths in the columns for
the leveral age groups (columns 2-8). They have also, in columns 9-12, been included
among the deaths in their respective "localities" according to the previous addresses
of the deceased as given by the registrars. Deaths of "non-residents" occurring in
public institutions in the district have been in like manner excluded from columns 2-8
and 9-12 of this Table.
(b) bee notes on Table I. as to the meaning of "residents" and "non-residents," and as
to the " Public Institutions" taken into account for the purposes of these Tables.
(c) All deaths occurring in public institutions situated within the district, whether of
"residents" or of " non-residents " have, in addition to being dealt with as in not«
(a), been entered in the last column of this Table.
(d) Under the heading of " diarrhoea " have been included deaths certified as from diarrhoea
alone or in combination with some other cause of ill-defined nature ; and also deaths
certified as from
Epidemic enteritis;
Zymotic enteritis;
Epidemic diarrhoea. Summer diarrhœa;
Dysentery and dysenteric diarrhoea;
Choleraic diarrhoea, cholera, cholera nostras (in the absence of Asiatic cholera).
Under the heading of " enteritis " have been included those certified as from gastroenteritis,
muco-enteritis and gastric catarrh.
Deaths from diarrhoea secondary to some other well-defined disease have been inoluded
under the latter.