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 |