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 or the Oases Treated by tub District Medical Officers of the Borough
Diseases. | Diseases. | ||
---|---|---|---|
All Causes | 4,453 | 37 Atelectasis | .. |
38 Congenital malformations | .. | ||
1 Small-pox | .. | 39 Old age | 155 |
40 Apoplexy | 4 | ||
2 Measles | 80 | 41 Epilepsy | 38 |
3 Scarlet Fever | 28 | 42 Convulsions | 3 |
4 Typlius | .. | 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 229 |
5 Relapsing fever | .. | ||
6 Influenza | 148 | 44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 26 |
7 Whooping Cough | 22 | ||
8 Diphtheria | 8 | ||
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever | 9 | 45 Diseases of circulatory system | 163 |
46 Laryngitis | 1 | ||
10 Enteric fever | 18 | ||
47 Bronchitis | 1143 | ||
11 Simple cholera | .. | ||
48 Pneumonia | 79 | ||
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery | 85 | ||
49 Pleurisy | 19 | ||
13 Remittent fever | .. | ||
50 Other respiratory diseases | 26 | ||
14 Hydrophobia | .. | 51 Dentition | 8 |
15 Glanders | .. | ||
16 Cow pox and Effects of vaccination | .. | 52 Quinsy, sore throat | 48 |
53 Enteritis | 46 | ||
17 Venereal affections | 23 | 54 Peritonitis | 2 |
18 Erysipelas | 28 | 55 Diseases of liver | 34 |
19 Pyaemia and septicemia | 8 | 56 Other diseases of digestive system | 310 |
20 Puerperal fever | 1 | ||
21 Tabes mesenterica | 1 | 57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 16 |
22 Tuberculous meningitis | 5 | ||
23 Phthisis | 194 | ||
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis | 31 | 58 Diseases of urinary system | 57 |
25 Other zymotic diseases | 17 | ||
26 Thrush | .. | 59 Diseases of the generative system | 34 |
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | 2 | 60 Accidents of childbirth | 24 |
61 Diseases of locomotive system | 183 | ||
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk | 1 | 62 Diseases of integumentary system | 144 |
29 Alcohol inn | 8 | ||
63 Fracture and contusion | 36 | ||
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart | 32 | 64 Gun shot wounds | |
31 Rheumatism | 335 | 65 Cut, stab | |
66 Burns or scalds | 10 | ||
32 Gout | 90 | ||
67 Poison | |||
33 Rickets | .. | ||
68 Drowning | |||
34 Cancer | 14 | ||
69 Suffocation | |||
35 Other constitutional diseases | 51 | ||
70 Otherwise | 63 | ||
36 Premature birth | 1 | 71 Other causes | 308 |