London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Stepney 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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| Senility | 7 |
| Septicæmia and Cellulitis | 2 |
| Shock while undergoing a necessary operation and under the influence of an anaesthetic | 9 |
| Summer Diarrhoea | 25 |
| Syphilis | 3 |
| Tetanus | 2 |
| Tumour of Brain | 2 |
| Affecting Children:— | |
| Accidents during birth | 1 |
| Inattention at birth | 11 |
| Accidental suffocation by clothes in cradle | 6 |
| Atalectasis | 12 |
| Burns and scalds | 57 |
| Circumcision | 3 |
| Convulsions | 78 |
| Enlarged Thymus Gland | 1 |
| Found dead | 3 |
| Improper feeding | 9 |
| Inanition | 11 |
| Laryngismus Stridulus | 1 |
| Marasmus | 2 |
| Measles | 7 |
| Overlain in bed by parents | 65 |
| Pemphigus Neonatorum | 2 |
| Premature births | 32 |
| Rickets | 3 |
| Saprœmia due to the absorbtion of the pus through the Umbilicus | 1 |
| Septic Meningitis | 1 |
| Teething | 2 |
| Tubercular Meningitis | 6 |
| Whooping Cough | 2 |