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Shoreditch 1904

[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 during the Year ending December31st,1904.

DiseasesDiseases.
All Causes4,16838 Congenital malformations
1 Small-pox239 Old age137
2 Measles11640 Apoplexy5
3 Scarlet fever941 Epilepsy27
4 Typhus42 Convulsions2
5 Relapsing fever43 Other diseases of brain and
6 Influenza92nervous system143
7 Whooping cough41
8 Diphtheria344 Diseases of organs of special sense13
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever745 Diseases of circulatory system195
10 Enteric fever446 Laryngitis1
11 Simple cholera47 Bronchitis1037
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery8148 Pneumonia45
13 Remittent fever-49 Pleurisy27
14 Hydrophobia-50 Other respiratory diseases40
15 Glanders-
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination_51 Dentition4
52 Quinzy, sore throat36
17 Venereal affections3553 Enteritis73
18 Erysipelas4254 Peritonitis3
19 Pyæmia and septicaemia1055 Diseases of liver49
20 Puerperal fever356 Other diseases of digestive system234
21 Tabes mesenterica1
22 Tuberculous meningitis1
23 Phthisis21257 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands1
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis15
25 Other zymotic diseases11
58 Diseases of urinary system32
26 Thrush_59 Diseases of generative system23
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases2
60 Accidents of childbirth15
61 Diseases of locomotive system192
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk-
62 Diseases of integumentary system95
29 Alcoholism23
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart28INJURIES.—
63 Fracture and contusion23
31 Rheumatism30764 Gun shot wounds
32 Gout6965 Cut, stab
33 Rickets166 Burns or scalds2
34 Cancer2767 Poison2
35 Other constitutional diseases5368 Drowning
69 Suffocation
70 Otherwise82
36 Premature birth
37 Atelectasis71 Other causes434