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Shoreditch 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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TABLE VII.

ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the Borough during the Year ending December31,s<, 1903.

Diseases.Diseases
All Causes3,52738 Congenital malformations-
1 Small-pox39 Old age99
2 Measles10640 Apoplexy7
3 Scarlet fever841 Epilepsy26
4 Typhus_42 Convulsions1
5 Relapsing fever43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system151
6 Influenza73
7 Whooping cough1344 Diseases of organs of special sense8
8 Diphtheria1
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever7
45 Diseases of circulatory system164
10 Enteric fever546 Laryngitis5
11 Simple cholera
47 Bronchitis772
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery75
48 Pneumonia42
13 Remittent fever
49 Pleurisy21
14 Hydrophobia
50 Other respiratory diseases25
15 Glanders
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination51 Dentition5
52 Quinzy, sore throat20
17 Venereal affections2253 Enteritis54
18 Erysipelas1454 Peritonitis2
19 Pyiemia and septicaemia1055 Diseases of liver25
20 Puerperal fever56 Other diseases of digestive system167
21 Tabes mesenterica
22 Tuberculous meningitis
23 Phthisis20957 Diseases of lymphatic system
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis26and ductless glands_
25 Other zymotic diseases1358 Diseases of urinary system41
26 Thrush59 Diseases of generative system23
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases760 Accidents of childbirth7
61 Diseases of locomotive system157
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk162 Diseases of integumentary
29 Alcoholism12.system93
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart13INJURIES.—
63 Fracture and contusion23
31 Rheumatism28764 Gun shot wounds
32 Gout5365 Cut, stab
83 Rickets366 Burn or scald4
34 Cancer3067 Poison3
35 Other constitutional diseases5068 Drowning_
69 Suffocation
36 Premature birth-70 Otherwise86
37 Atelectasis-71 Other causes462