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 VII.
ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the Borough
Diseases. | Diseases. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
All Causes | 4,836 | 37 | Atelectasis | ... |
38 | Congenital malformations | ... | ||
39 | Old age | 160 | ||
1 Small-pox | ... | 40 | Apoplexy | 8 |
2 Measles | 78 | 41 | Epilepsy | 73 |
3 Scarlet Fever | 3 | 42 | Convulsions | 5 |
4 Typhus | ... | 43 | Other diseases of brain and | |
5 Relapsing fever | ... | nervous system | 279 | |
6 Influenza | 81 | 44 | Diseases of organs of special sense | 32 |
7 Whooping Cough | 35 | |||
8 Diphtheria | 4 | |||
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever | 16 | 45 | Diseases of circulatory system | 180 |
46 | Laryngitis | 22 | ||
10 Enteric fever | ... | |||
11 Simple cholera | ... | 47 | Bronchitis | 1,375 |
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery | 101 | 48 | Pneumonia | 100 |
13 Remittent fever | ... | 49 | Pleurisy | 19 |
14 Hydrophobia | ... | 50 | Other respiratory diseases | 23 |
15 Glanders | ... | 51 | Dentition | 3 |
16 Cow pox and Effects of vaccination | ... | 52 | Quinsy, sore throat | 28 |
53 | Enteritis | 117 | ||
17 Venereal affections | 54 | 54 | Peritonitis | ... |
18 Erysipelas | 19 | 55 | Diseases of liver | 11 |
19 Pyaemia and septicæmia | 4 | 56 | Other diseases of digestive system | 305 |
20 Puerperal fever | 1 | |||
21 Tabes mesenterica | ... | |||
22 Tuberculous meningitis | 57 | Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 23 | |
23 Phthisis | 222 | |||
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis | 23 | 58 | Diseases of urinary system | 39 |
25 Other zymotic diseases | 36 | |||
26 Thrush | ... | 59 | Diseases of the generative system | 26 |
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | ... | 60 | Accidents of childbirth | 17 |
61 | Diseases of locomotive system | 185 | ||
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk | 1 | |||
62 | Diseases of integumentary system | 167 | ||
29 Alcoholism | 10 | |||
63 | Fracture and contusion | 38 | ||
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart | 28 | 64 | Gun shot wounds | ... |
65 | Cut, stab | 2 | ||
31 Rheumatism | 345 | 66 | Burns or scalds | 4 |
32 Gout | 49 | 67 | Poison | 2 |
33 Rickets | ... | 68 | Drowning | ... |
34 Cancer | 34 | 1 69 | Suffocation | ... |
35 Other constitutional diseases | 31 | 70 | Otherwise | 41 |
36 Premature birth | ... | 71 | Other causes | 375 |