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Shoreditch 1907

[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 during the Year ending December31st, 1907.

Diseases.Diseases.
All Causes 4,38037 Atelectasis
38 Congenital malformations 2
1 Small-pox39 Old age 175
40 Apoplexy 6
2 Measles 14441 Epilepsy 20
3 Scarlet Fever 3642 Convulsions 2
4 Typhus43 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 1545 Diseases of circulatory system 198
46 Laryngitis 2
10 Enteric fever 447 Bronchitis 1030
11 Simple cholera48 Pneumonia 65
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery 504 9 Pleurisy 28
13 Remittent fever50 Other respiratory diseases 43
14 Hydrophobia
15 Glanders51 Dentition 10
16 Cow pox and Effects of vaccination52 Quinsy, sore throat 57
53 Enteritis 30
17 Venereal affections 4554 Peritonitis 2
18 Erysipelas 5055 Diseases of liver 23
19 Pysemia and septicemia 256 Other diseases of digestive system 384
20 Puerperal fever
21 Tabes mesenterica
22 Tuberculous meningitis57 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 5263 Fracture and contusion 33
64 Gun shot wounds
31 Rheumatism 28265 Cut stab 3
32 Gout 7766 Burns or scalds 2
33 Rickets 267 Poison 3 68 Drowning ..
34 Cancer 2069 Suffocation ..
35 Other constitutional diseases 3470 Otherwise 77
36 Premature birth71 Other causes 307