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 cause | 5,190 | 37 Atelectasis | ... |
38 Congenital malformation. | ... | ||
39 Old age | 199 | ||
1 Smallpox | ... | 40 Apoplexy | 6 |
2 Measles | 267 | 41 Epilepsy | 85 |
3 Scarlet Fever | 11 | 42 Convulsions | 1 |
4 Typhus | ... | 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 238 |
5 Relapsing fever | ... | ||
6 Influenza | 70 | ||
7 Whooping Cough | 100 | 44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 39 |
8 Diphtheria | 3 | ||
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever | 15 | 45 Diseases of circulatory system | 191 |
46 Laryngitis | 13 | ||
10 Enteric fever | ... | ||
11 Simple cholera | ... | 47 Bronchitis | 1,303 |
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery | 101 | 48 Pneumonia | 93 |
13 Remittent fever | ... | 49 Pleurisy | 29 |
14 Hydrophobia | ... | 50 Other respiratory diseases. | 24 |
15 Glanders | ... | 51 Dentition | 14 |
16 Cow pox and Effects of vaccination | ... | 52 Quinsy, sore throat | 39 |
53 Enteritis | 111 | ||
17 Venereal affections | 39 | 54 Peritonitis | 3 |
18 Erysipelas | 23 | 55 Diseases of liver | 9 |
19 Pyaemia and septicaemia | 7 | 56 Other diseases of digestive system | 334 |
20 Puerperal fever | 2 | ||
21 Tabes mesenterica | 2 | ||
22 Tuberculous meningitis | 1 | 57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 18 |
23 Phthisis | 264 | ||
24 Scrofula, tuberculosis | 46 | ||
25 Other zymotic diseases | 45 | 58 Diseases of urinary system | 57 |
59 Diseases of the generative system | 38 | ||
26 Thrush | 1 | ||
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | 2 | 60 Accidents of childbirth | 23 |
61 Diseases of locomotive system | 153 | ||
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk | ... | ||
62 Diseases of integumentary system | 177 | ||
29 Alcoholism | 8 | ||
63 Fracture and contusion | 41 | ||
30 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart | 21 | 64 Gun shot wounds | ... |
65 Cut, stab | 1 | ||
31 Rheumatism | 378 | 66 Burns or scalds | 20 |
32 Gout | 91 | 67 Poison | 2 |
33 Rickets | 4 | 68 Drowning | ... |
34 Cancer | 21 | 69 Suffocation | ... |
35 Other constitutional diseases | 32 | 70 Otherwise | 45 |
36 Premature birth | 1 | 71 Other causes | 327 |