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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Shoreditch 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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TABLE TIL
ANALYSIS of ttte Cases Treated by tiie D istrict M edical O fficers of thb
Borough during the Year ending December 3 1 st, 1912.
| Diseases. | Diseases. |
|---|---|
| All Causes 5,201 | 37 Atelectasis |
| 38 Congenital malformations 1 | |
| 39 Old age153 | |
| 1 Small-pox | 40 Apoplexy13 |
| 2 Measles ,263 | 41 Epilepsy84 |
| 3 Scarlet Fever 6 | 42 Convulsions 6 |
| 4 Typhus | 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system 269 |
| 5 Relapsing fever | |
| 6 Influenza 147 | 44 Diseases of organs of special sense 21 |
| 7 Whooping Cough 79 | |
| 8 Diphtheria 4 | |
| 9 Simple, continued and ill- defined fever 9 | 45 Diseases of circulatory system 190 |
| 46 Laryngitis 7 | |
| 10 Enteric fever | |
| 11 Simple cholera | 47 Bronchitis1,292 |
| 12 Diarrhoea, dysentery 50 | 48 Pneumonia 110 |
| 13 Remittent fever | 4 9 Pleurisy 23 |
| 14 Hydrophobia | 50 Other resoieators diseases 20 |
| 15 Glanders | 51 Dentition 4 |
| 16 Cow pox and Effects of vaccination | 52 Quinsy, sore throat 30 53 Enteritis 54 |
| 17 Venereal affections 47 | 54 'Peritonitis 3 |
| 18 Erysipelas 28 | 55 Discases of liver 16 |
| 19 Pyaemia and septicaemia 6 | 56 Other diseases of digestive system 356 |
| 20 Puerperal fever | |
| 22 Tuberculous meningitis 1 | 57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands18 |
| 23 Phthisis 292 | |
| 24 Scrofula, tuberculosis. 27 | 58 Diseases of urinary system 54 |
| 25 Other zymotic diseases 31 | |
| 26 Thrush.1 | 59 Dissoasos of the generative system 19 |
| 27 "Worms and other parasitic diseases 3 | 60 Accidents of childbirth 24 |
| 28 Starvation, want of breast-milk 1 | 61 Diseases of locomotive system 247 |
| 29 Alcoholism 4 | 62 Diseases of locomotive system system148 |
| 30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart 28 | 63 Fracture and contusion 42 64 Gun shot wounds |
| 31 Rheumatism 458 | 65 Cut, stab 1 |
| 32 Gout 57 | 66 Burns or scalds 7 |
| 33 Rickets | 67 .poison 2 |
| 34 Cancer 25 | 68 Drowning |
| 35 Other constitutional diseases 25 | 69 Suffocation 70 Otherwise 60 |
| 36 Premature birth 2 | 71 Other causes 323 |