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Shoreditch 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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TABLE VIII.

ANALYSIS or the Oases Treated by tub District Medical Officers of the Borough during the Year ending December31st,1908.

Diseases.Diseases.
All Causes4,45337 Atelectasis..
38 Congenital malformations..
1 Small-pox..39 Old age155
40 Apoplexy4
2 Measles8041 Epilepsy38
3 Scarlet Fever2842 Convulsions3
4 Typlius..43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system229
5 Relapsing fever..
6 Influenza14844 Diseases of organs of special sense26
7 Whooping Cough22
8 Diphtheria8
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever945 Diseases of circulatory system163
46 Laryngitis1
10 Enteric fever18
47 Bronchitis1143
11 Simple cholera..
48 Pneumonia79
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery85
49 Pleurisy19
13 Remittent fever..
50 Other respiratory diseases26
14 Hydrophobia..51 Dentition8
15 Glanders..
16 Cow pox and Effects of vaccination..52 Quinsy, sore throat48
53 Enteritis46
17 Venereal affections2354 Peritonitis2
18 Erysipelas2855 Diseases of liver34
19 Pyaemia and septicemia856 Other diseases of digestive system310
20 Puerperal fever1
21 Tabes mesenterica157 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands16
22 Tuberculous meningitis5
23 Phthisis194
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis3158 Diseases of urinary system57
25 Other zymotic diseases17
26 Thrush..59 Diseases of the generative system34
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases260 Accidents of childbirth24
61 Diseases of locomotive system183
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk162 Diseases of integumentary system144
29 Alcohol inn8
63 Fracture and contusion36
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart3264 Gun shot wounds
31 Rheumatism33565 Cut, stab
66 Burns or scalds10
32 Gout90
67 Poison
33 Rickets..
68 Drowning
34 Cancer14
69 Suffocation
35 Other constitutional diseases51
70 Otherwise63
36 Premature birth171 Other causes308