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 5,261 | 37 Atelectasis |
38 Congenital malformations | |
39 Old age 155 | |
1 Small-pox | 40 Apoplexy 8 |
2 Measles 198 | 41 Epilepsy 38 |
3 Scarlet Fever 11 | 42 Convulsions 3 |
4 Typhus | 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system 233 |
5 Relapsing fever | |
6 Influenza 130 | |
44 Diseases of organs of special sense 29 | |
7 Whooping Cough 130 | |
8 Diphtheria 4 | |
9 Simple, continued and ill- defined fever 8 | 45 Diseases of circulatory system 202 |
46 Laryngitis 7 | |
10 Enteric fever 5 | |
47 Bronchitis 1279 | |
11 Simple cholera | |
48 Pneumonia 102 | |
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery 104 | |
49 Pleurisy 30 | |
13 Remittent fever | |
50 Other respiratory diseases 26 | |
14 Hydrophobia | |
15 Glanders | |
51 Dentition 20 | |
16 Cow pox and Effects of vaccination | |
52 Quinsy, sore throat 57 | |
53 Enteritis 75 | |
17 Venereal affections 38 | |
54 Peritonitis 2 | |
18 Erysipelas 46 | |
55 Diseases of liver 26 | |
19 Pyaemia and septicæmia 6 | |
56 Other diseases of digestive system 449 | |
20 Puerperal fever 6 | |
21 Tabes mesenterica | |
57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands 17 | |
22 Tuberculous meningitis 1 | |
23 Phthisis 190 | |
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis 40 | |
58 Diseases of urinary system 58 | |
25 Other zymotic diseases 28 | |
26 Thrush | 59 Diseases of the generative system 52 |
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases 1 | 60 Accidents of childbirth 25 |
61 Diseases of locomotive system 240 | |
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk 4 | |
62 Diseases of integumentary system 177 | |
29 Alcoholism 4 | |
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart 47 | 63 Fracture and contusion 30 |
64 Gun shot wounds | |
65 Cut, stab 1 | |
31 Rheumatism 355 | |
66 Burns or scalds 7 | |
32 Gout 104 | |
67 Poison 4 | |
33 Rickets 1 | |
68 Drowning | |
34 Cancer 36 | |
69 Suffocation | |
35 Other constitutional diseases 36 | |
70 Otherwise 53 | |
36 Premature birth 2 | 71 Other causes 322 |