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 St. Giles District]
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Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
"Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
III. DIETIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
Want of Breast Milk—Starvation | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Scurvy | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Chronic Alcoholism | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Delirium Tremens | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | |
IV. CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Rheumatism | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Gout | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
Rickets | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Cancer, Malignant Disease | - | - | - | 1 | 13 | 17 | - | 31 | 11 | 9 | 11 |
Tabes Mesenterica | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | 5 | - | 4 | 1 |
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus | 7 | 5 | 3 | - | - | - | 12 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
Phthisis | - | - | 1 | 8 | 98 | 9 | - | 116 | 18 | 59 | 39 |
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | - | 6 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 |
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Anaemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Other Constitutional Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
10 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 121 | 27 | 22 | 190 | 41 | 90 | 59 | |
V. DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
Premature Birth | 35 | - | - | - | - | - | 35 | 35 | 11 | 12 | 12 |
Atelectasis | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | 2 | 1 |
Congenital Malformation | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Old Age | - | - | - | - | - | 48 | - | 48 | 19 | 26 | 3 |
38 | - | - | - | - | 48 | 38 | 86 | 30 | 40 | 16 | |
VI. LOCAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
1. DISEASES OK NERVOUS SYSTEM. | |||||||||||
Inflammation of Brain or Membranes | - | - | - | - | 3 | 5 | - | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis | - | - | - | - | 22 | 22 | - | 44 | 16 | 19 | 9 |
Insanity, General Paralysis of the Insane | - | - | - | - | 5 | 7 | - | 12 | 4 | 8 | - |
Epilepsy | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | - |
Convulsions | 13 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 15 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 |
Laryngismus Stridulus (Spasm of Glottis) | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 |
Disease of Spinal Cord, Paraplegia, Paralysis Agitans | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 3 | - | 2 | 1 |
Other Diseases of Nervous System | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Carried forward | 14 | 3 | - | - | 33 | 37 | 17 | 87 | 30 | 36 | 21 |