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Shoreditch 1914

[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 December 31st,1914.

Diseases.Diseases.
All cause5,19037 Atelectasis...
38 Congenital malformation....
39 Old age199
1 Smallpox...40 Apoplexy6
2 Measles26741 Epilepsy85
3 Scarlet Fever1142 Convulsions1
4 Typhus...43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system238
5 Relapsing fever...
6 Influenza70
7 Whooping Cough10044 Diseases of organs of special sense39
8 Diphtheria3
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever1545 Diseases of circulatory system191
46 Laryngitis13
10 Enteric fever...
11 Simple cholera...47 Bronchitis1,303
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery10148 Pneumonia93
13 Remittent fever...49 Pleurisy29
14 Hydrophobia...50 Other respiratory diseases.24
15 Glanders...51 Dentition14
16 Cow pox and Effects of vaccination...52 Quinsy, sore throat39
53 Enteritis111
17 Venereal affections3954 Peritonitis3
18 Erysipelas2355 Diseases of liver9
19 Pyaemia and septicaemia756 Other diseases of digestive system334
20 Puerperal fever2
21 Tabes mesenterica2
22 Tuberculous meningitis157 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands18
23 Phthisis264
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis46
25 Other zymotic diseases4558 Diseases of urinary system57
59 Diseases of the generative system38
26 Thrush1
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases260 Accidents of childbirth23
61 Diseases of locomotive system153
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk...
62 Diseases of integumentary system177
29 Alcoholism8
63 Fracture and contusion41
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart2164 Gun shot wounds...
65 Cut, stab1
31 Rheumatism37866 Burns or scalds20
32 Gout9167 Poison2
33 Rickets468 Drowning...
34 Cancer2169 Suffocation...
35 Other constitutional diseases3270 Otherwise45
36 Premature birth171 Other causes327