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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 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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| Injuries | 232 | 278 | 46 | — |
| Convulsive Diseases | 123 | 128 | 5 | — |
| Wasting Diseases | 194 | 189 | — | 5 |
| Premature Births | 156 | 143 | — | 13 |
| Old Age | 244 | 244 | — | — |
| Cancer | 213 | 233 | 10 | — |
| Alcoholism | 48 | 48 | — | — |
| All other causes | 753 | 779 | 26 | — |
| - | 4,896 | 5,176 | 392 | 112 |
There were 648 inquests held on residents during the year. The causes
of death assigned were as follows: —
Abscess of Brain 1
Accidents 92
Accidents and Diseases of child-birth, including
Puerperal Fever 1
Alcoholism 7
Aneurism of Aorta 8
Apoplexy 30
Asphyxia caused by regurgitation of food into Trachea 4
Bright's Disease 13
Burns (adults) 11
Cancer 5
Carbuncle 1
Cerebellar Tumour 1
Croup 1
Diarrhœa 1
Diabetes 1
Diseases of the Intestines 2
Diseases of the Lungs:—
Bronchitis 13
Pneumonia 33
Phthisis 15
Other Respiratory Diseases 1
Diseases accelerated by self-neglect and want of
proper nursing 8
Drowning 16
Epilepsy 1
Gastric Ulcer 3
Heart Disease 82
Influenza 3