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Shoreditch 1913

[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 during the Year ending December31st, 1913.

Diseases.Diseases.
All Causes4,83637Atelectasis...
38Congenital malformations...
39Old age160
1 Small-pox...40Apoplexy8
2 Measles7841Epilepsy73
3 Scarlet Fever342Convulsions5
4 Typhus...43Other diseases of brain and
5 Relapsing fever...nervous system279
6 Influenza8144Diseases of organs of special sense32
7 Whooping Cough35
8 Diphtheria4
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever1645Diseases of circulatory system180
46Laryngitis22
10 Enteric fever...
11 Simple cholera...47Bronchitis1,375
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery10148Pneumonia100
13 Remittent fever...49Pleurisy19
14 Hydrophobia...50Other respiratory diseases23
15 Glanders...51Dentition3
16 Cow pox and Effects of vaccination...52Quinsy, sore throat28
53Enteritis117
17 Venereal affections5454Peritonitis...
18 Erysipelas1955Diseases of liver11
19 Pyaemia and septicæmia456Other diseases of digestive system305
20 Puerperal fever1
21 Tabes mesenterica...
22 Tuberculous meningitis257Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands23
23 Phthisis222
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis2358Diseases of urinary system39
25 Other zymotic diseases36
26 Thrush...59Diseases of the generative system26
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases...60Accidents of childbirth17
61Diseases of locomotive system185
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk1
62Diseases of integumentary system167
29 Alcoholism10
63Fracture and contusion38
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart2864Gun shot wounds...
65Cut, stab2
31 Rheumatism34566Burns or scalds4
32 Gout4967Poison2
33 Rickets...68Drowning...
34 Cancer341 69Suffocation...
35 Other constitutional diseases3170Otherwise41
36 Premature birth...71Other causes375