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Shoreditch 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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TABLE V.

CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.DEATHS IN EACH WARD.SEX.Total.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 10.10 to 16.15 to 20.20 to 25.25 to 35.35 to 45.45 to 55.55 to 65.65 to 75.75 to 86.85 and upwards.Moorfields.Church.Hoxton.Wenlock.Whitmore.Kingsland.Haggerston.Acton.Male.Female.
1Small Poxvaccinated................................................
Unvaccinated................................................
No statement..............................................
2 Measles191025....................22227193412467 650126
3 Searlet fever..3......1..............1..1..• •..11224
4 Typhus fever..............1..........I............1..1
5 Epidemic influenza32....1....1212....221151....4812
6 Whooping cough20211..................213936342231942
7 Diphtheria, membranous croup ..3132....................4233....6126IN
8 Enteric fever..1......11....1........1..11....1224
9 Asiatic cholera............................................
10 Diarrhoea, dysentery256........1..1..........953112..3102333
11 Epidemic or zymotic enteritis61......................12111..1617
12 Other allied diseases1............................1........1..1
13 Hydrophobia..............................................
14 Glanders, farcy..............................................
15 Tetanus..............................................
16 Anthrax, splenic fever..............................................
17 Cow-pox, accidents of vaccination..............................................
18 Syphilis91......................23111115510
19 Gonorrhoea............................................
20 Phagedoena, hospital gangrene1..........................1..........1..1
21 Erysipelas............1..11..3....I1..2....2516
22 Puerperal fever..........121............111......1..44
23 Pyemia, septicemia1242..11111......215..31..7714
24 Infective endocarditis2......31..3................39,..13819
25 Other allied diseases..1..............................1......1..1
26 Malarial fever..............................................
27 Rheumatic fever......2........1............11....1..213
28 Rheumatism of the heart Tubeuculosis :................................................
29 Brain or meninges, acute hydrocephalus1 32281................81097543219546
30 Larynx............................................
31 Lungs18219143766432682..124431284823131816057217
32 Intestines, tabes mesenterica32..........................32......415
33 General, position undefined11031....1..........451812..8816
34 Other forms, scrofula..2......11..I1........1..12I1246
35 Other infevtive diseases............................................
36 Thrush..........................................
37 Actinomycosis............................................
38 Hydatid diseases............................................
39 Scurvy............................................
40 Other diseases due to altered food..........................................
41 Acute alcoholism, delirium tremens............................................
42 Chronic alcoholism............3221......2321....448
43 Chronic industrial poisonings............................................
44 Other chronic poisonings............................................
45 Osteo- arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis..........................................
46 Gout................1..........1........11
47 Cancer..............311142418817121013135811354479
48 Diabetes mellitus........1..1..121. •..211I....1336
49 Purpura hemorrhagica............................................
50 Hemophilia..............................................
51 Anemia, leucocythemia............1..........................111