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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

St Luke 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Luke, Middlesex]

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Table: TABLE III.— continued.

TABLE III.— continued.

causes of death.ages.Total under 5 years of age.Grand Total all Ages.
0 to 1.1 to 5.1 5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards.
III. Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation1...............11
Scurvy........................
Chronic Alcoholism............4......4
Delirium Tremens........................
1.........4...15
IV. Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever............1......1
Rheumatism............2......2
Gout............1......1
Rickets...1............11
Cancer, Malignant Disease.........1189...28
Tabes Mesenterica5...113...510
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus68............1414
Phthisisl54108516106
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula6102...311622
Furpura, Hcemorrhagic Diathesis........................
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leueocytbæmia........................
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus............13...4
Other Constitutional Diseases........................
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