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Shoreditch 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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TABLE VI.

Deaths from all Causes in the Borough of Shoreditch, and in each ward during the year ending 31st December, 1907.

Note .—The deaths of persons not belonging to Shoreditch occurring in hospitals and other institutions in the Borough are excluded ; deaths of persons belonging to Shoreditch occurring in public institutions in London beyond the limits of the Borough are included.

CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.Moorfields.Church.Hoxton.Wenlock.Whitmore.Kingsland.Haggerston.Acton.Male.Female.Total.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 1010 to 15.15 to 20.20 to 25.25 to 35.35 to 45.45 to 55.55 to 65.65 to 75.75 to 85.85 and upwards.
Small PoxVaccinated............................................
Unvaccinated................................................
No statement................................................
2 Measles29832....................3211712389866747114
3 Scarlet fever219511................111165212141428
4 Typhus fever................................................
5 Epidemic influenza11......1142..7512..539112101323
6 Whooping cough41562....................8181714146175425799
7 Diphtheria, membranous croup3143......................45431..381220
8 Enteric fever......12..21............111111..246
9 Asiatic cholera..............................................
10 Diarrhœa, dysentery521111......1....21....9198145311323769
11 Epidemic or zymotic enteritis5..........................131........325
12 Cerebro-Spinal Fever22........................121..1....314
13 Hydrophobia................................................
14 Ganders, farcy............................................
15 Tetanus................................................
16 Anthrax, splenic fever................................................
17 Cow-pox, accidents of vaccination................................................•....
18 Syphilis10..............1........113..222..5611
19 Gonorrhœa1................................1......1..1
20 Phagedoena, hospital gangrene..............................................
21 ..Ervsipelas11............1111........21111246
22 Puerperal fever.............1..............1..............11
23 Pyaemia, septicemia32....22..1..2..1....1..43..325813
24 Infective endocarditis..... .32..111..1....12..21111549
25 Other allied diseases1........1......1........2..1..........33
26 Malarial fever............1..................1........1..1
27 Rheumatic fever..1..22..........1........21..21..156
28 Rheumatism of the heart••..••1.....................1..............11
Tuberculosis :
29 Brain or meninges, acute hydrocephalus102041..2................6289336162237
30 Larynx................................................
31 Lungs49431316446246265....74228335518232614587232
32 Intestines, tabes mesenterica8711......1..1........321811381119
33 General, position undefined5146111211..1......868512392433
34 Other forms, scrofula....12..11..1..........32....1....516
35 Other Infective diseases................................................
36 Thrush................................................
37 Actinomycosis................................................
38 Hydatid diseases................................................
39 Scurvy................................................
40 Other diseases due to altered food................................................
41 Acute alcoholism, delirium tremens..............13............1..1..114..4
42 Chronic alcoholism............14433......442311..8715
43 Chronic industrial poisonings .................................................
45 Osteo-arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis..............1............1..1........1..1
46 Gout..................21......1....1..1..3..3
47 Cancer..............822341441316119245510354883
48 Diabetes mellitus..........11....2111....2131....257
49 Purpura hœmorrhagica........1............................1....11
50 Hæmophilia..................................2............
51 Anremia lecrucocythremia..2........2..11......21....156