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 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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| Causes of Death. | Deaths in or belonging to whole District at subjoined Ages. | Deaths in or belonging to Localities (at all Ages). | Total Deaths in Public Institutions in the District. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 5 | 5 and under 15' | 15 and under 25' | 25 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | Limehouse. | St. George's | Mile End. | Whitechapel. | |||
| Small Pox | |||||||||||||
| Measles | 178 | 44 | 132 | 2 | 63 | 20 | 57 | 38 | 29 | ||||
| Scarlet fever | 38 | 3 | 26 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 1 | ||||
| Whooping-cough | 99 | 39 | 57 | 3 | 23 | 28 | 30 | 18 | 55 | ||||
| Diphtheria and membranous croup | 63 | 5 | 50 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 24 | 12 | 29 | |||
| Croup | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Fever | Typhus | ||||||||||||
| Enteric | 24 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 18 | |||
| Other continued | |||||||||||||
| Epidemic influenza | 53 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 18 | 14 | 18 | 11 | 10 | 20 | ||
| Cholera | |||||||||||||
| Plague | |||||||||||||
| Diarrhœa | 318 | 225 | 88 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 92 | 71 | 112 | 43 | 188 | ||
| Enteritis | 257 | 220 | 29 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 52 | 61 | 84 | 60 | 60 | ||
| Puerperal fever | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 | ||||||
| Erysipelas | 10 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | ||||||
| Other septic diseases | 78 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 9 | 25 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 25 | 23 | 223 | |
| Phthisis (Pulmonary Tuberculosis) | 526 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 68 | 418 | 20 | 116 | 94 | 178 | 138 | 217 | |
| Other tubercular diseases | 214 | 55 | 112 | 30 | 6 | 11 | 57 | 47 | 53 | 57 | 203 | ||
| Cancer, malignant disease | 263 | 173 | 90 | 62 | 42 | 104 | 55 | 198 | |||||
| Bronchitis | 480 | 89 | 40 | 2 | 4 | 156 | 189 | 85 | 100 | 185 | 110 | 152 | |
| Pneumonia | 517 | 122 | 160 | 16 | 18 | 160 | 41 | 105 | 90 | 171 | 151 | 296 | |
| Pleurisy | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| Other diseases of Respiratory organs | 53 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 19 | 12 | 37 | |
| Alcoholism Cirrhosis of Liver | 72 | 1 | 66 | 5 | 19 | 6 | 30 | 17 | 31 | ||||
| Venereal diseases | 27 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 18 | ||
| Premature birth | 164 | 164 | 43 | 26 | 67 | 28 | 29 | ||||||
| Diseases and accidents of parturition | 32 | 14 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 13 | |||||
| Heart diseases | 396 | 16 | 3 | 19 | 25 | 227 | 106 | 72 | 56 | 138 | 130 | 247 | |
| Accidents | 216 | 61 | 43 | 19 | 7 | 67 | 19 | 49 | 42 | 64 | 61 | 161 | |
| Suicides | 29 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 7 | |||
| Rheumatic fever | 14 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 | ||||
| Convulsive diseases | 155 | 114 | 41 | 32 | 32 | 56 | 35 | 54 | |||||
| Wasting diseases | 225 | 203 | 21 | 1 | 38 | 45 | 89 | 53 | 140 | ||||
| Old age | 249 | 2 | 247 | 78 | 25 | 103 | 43 | 46 | |||||
| All other causes | 672 | 36 | 30 | 26 | 40 | 369 | 171 | 147 | 102 | 256 | 167 | 522 | |
| All causes | 5435 | 1454 | 872 | 181 | 196 | 1799 | 933 | 1233 | 976 | 1921 | 1305 | 3020 | |