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 or the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the Borough
Diseases | Diseases. | ||
---|---|---|---|
All Causes | 4,168 | 38 Congenital malformations | |
1 Small-pox | 2 | 39 Old age | 137 |
2 Measles | 116 | 40 Apoplexy | 5 |
3 Scarlet fever | 9 | 41 Epilepsy | 27 |
4 Typhus | — | 42 Convulsions | 2 |
5 Relapsing fever | — | 43 Other diseases of brain and | |
6 Influenza | 92 | nervous system | 143 |
7 Whooping cough | 41 | ||
8 Diphtheria | 3 | 44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 13 |
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever | 7 | 45 Diseases of circulatory system | 195 |
10 Enteric fever | 4 | 46 Laryngitis | 1 |
11 Simple cholera | — | 47 Bronchitis | 1037 |
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery | 81 | 48 Pneumonia | 45 |
13 Remittent fever | - | 49 Pleurisy | 27 |
14 Hydrophobia | - | 50 Other respiratory diseases | 40 |
15 Glanders | - | ||
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination | _ | 51 Dentition | 4 |
52 Quinzy, sore throat | 36 | ||
17 Venereal affections | 35 | 53 Enteritis | 73 |
18 Erysipelas | 42 | 54 Peritonitis | 3 |
19 Pyæmia and septicaemia | 10 | 55 Diseases of liver | 49 |
20 Puerperal fever | 3 | 56 Other diseases of digestive system | 234 |
21 Tabes mesenterica | 1 | ||
22 Tuberculous meningitis | 1 | ||
23 Phthisis | 212 | 57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 1 |
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis | 15 | ||
25 Other zymotic diseases | 11 | ||
58 Diseases of urinary system | 32 | ||
26 Thrush | _ | 59 Diseases of generative system | 23 |
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | 2 | ||
60 Accidents of childbirth | 15 | ||
61 Diseases of locomotive system | 192 | ||
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk | - | ||
62 Diseases of integumentary system | 95 | ||
29 Alcoholism | 23 | ||
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart | 28 | INJURIES.— | |
63 Fracture and contusion | 23 | ||
31 Rheumatism | 307 | 64 Gun shot wounds | — |
32 Gout | 69 | 65 Cut, stab | — |
33 Rickets | 1 | 66 Burns or scalds | 2 |
34 Cancer | 27 | 67 Poison | 2 |
35 Other constitutional diseases | 53 | 68 Drowning | — |
69 Suffocation | — | ||
70 Otherwise | 82 | ||
36 Premature birth | |||
37 Atelectasis | — | 71 Other causes | 434 |