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 VIII.
ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the Borough
Diseases. | Diseases. |
---|---|
All Causes 4,380 | 37 Atelectasis |
38 Congenital malformations 2 | |
1 Small-pox | 39 Old age 175 |
40 Apoplexy 6 | |
2 Measles 144 | 41 Epilepsy 20 |
3 Scarlet Fever 36 | 42 Convulsions 2 |
4 Typhus | 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system 218 |
5 Relapsing fever | |
6 Influenza 97 | |
44 Diseases of organs of special sense 19 | |
7 Whooping Cough 63 | |
8 Diphtheria 5 | |
9 Simple, continued and ill- defined fever 15 | 45 Diseases of circulatory system 198 |
46 Laryngitis 2 | |
10 Enteric fever 4 | 47 Bronchitis 1030 |
11 Simple cholera | 48 Pneumonia 65 |
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery 50 | |
13 Remittent fever | 50 Other respiratory diseases 43 |
14 Hydrophobia | |
15 Glanders | 51 Dentition 10 |
16 Cow pox and Effects of vaccination | 52 Quinsy, sore throat 57 |
53 Enteritis 30 | |
17 Venereal affections 45 | 54 Peritonitis 2 |
18 Erysipelas 50 | 55 Diseases of liver 23 |
19 Pysemia and septicemia 2 | 56 Other diseases of digestive system 384 |
20 Puerperal fever | |
21 Tabes mesenterica | |
22 Tuberculous meningitis | 57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands 8 |
23 Phthisis 194 | |
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis 34 | |
58 Diseases of urinary system 58 | |
25 Other zymotic diseases 24 | |
59 Diseases of the generative system 18 | |
26 Thrush | |
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | |
60 Accidents of childbirth 11 | |
61 Diseases of locomotive system 155 | |
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk 1 | |
62 Diseases of integumentary system 148 | |
29 Alcoholism 12 | |
30 Rheumatic fever and rheuma- tism of heart 52 | 63 Fracture and contusion 33 |
64 Gun shot wounds | |
31 Rheumatism 282 | 65 Cut stab 3 |
32 Gout 77 | 66 Burns or scalds 2 |
33 Rickets 2 | 67 Poison 3 68 Drowning .. |
34 Cancer 20 | 69 Suffocation .. |
35 Other constitutional diseases 34 | 70 Otherwise 77 |
36 Premature birth | 71 Other causes 307 |