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Whitechapel 1884

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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SPECIMEN HEALTH SHEET.

No. 53. TABLE OF DEATHS for the Fifty-third Week ending January 3rd, 1885.

CAUSES OF DEATH.LONDON.WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT.Cases of Sickness attended by District Medical Officers.
Corrected average.All agea.0 to 1.1 to 5.5 to 20.20 and under 40.40 and under 60.60 and under 80.80 and upwards.Spitalfields.Mile End New Town.Whitechapel Church.Goodman's Fields.Aldgate.All ages.0 to 1.1 to 5.5 to 20.20 and under 40.40 and under 60.60 and under 80.
NMSTotal.
All causes1986.619184062481422613314291013101332319236565723383
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.In this column find recorded deaths of Residents in outlying Institutions.56 admissions.
1 Small-poxVaccinated19.24.........13.............................................
Un-vaccinated12138......................................................
No statement.17326222....................................21...
2 Measles60.3225143......................................................
3 Scarlet-fever58.62821673...................................................
4 Typhus2.4..................................................................
5 Relapsing fever.....................................................................
G Influenza0.1..................................................................
7 Whooping cough70.43310212......................................................
8 Diphtheria15.328213121...................................................
2 Simple, Continued and 111- defined fever40..................................................................
10 Enteric fever19.411......74..........................................1......
U Simple cholera0.21.........1...................................................
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery15.91564.........41.................................1......
13 Remittent fever.....................................................................
14 Hydrophobia.....................................................................
15 Glanders.....................................................................
16 Cow-pox and effects of vaccination0.5..................................................................
1/ Venereal affections11.6981.........................................................
18 Erysipelas!9.162......1...21....................................1...
19 Pyemia and septicemia4.011............................................................
20 Puerperal fever7.112.........12...................................................
21 Other zymotic diseases3.54121......................................................
22 Thrush2.422............................................................
23 Worms and other parasitic diseases0.2..................................................................
24 Starvation, want of breast1.532.........1................................................
25 Alcoholism4.65.........32................................................
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart13.710......811................................................
27 Rheumatism6.........................................................91...
28 Gout3.63...............12.............................................
29 Rickets2.5413............................................................
30 Cancer44.848......1320204...1........................1............
31 Tabes Mesenterica23.419124111............1.........1........................
32 Tubercular Meningitis31.4215115.........................................................
33 Phthisis184.01984319936019......11..................11............
34 Scrofula, tuberculosis12.4145135.........1...............1........................
35 Other constitutional diseases.6.512.........345.........1............1...............1...
36 Premature birth33.95252........................11......2........................
37 Atelectasis1.533...............................................................
38 Congenital malformations6.07(51............................................................
39 Old age72.478............33540...11........................2.........
40 Apoplexy56.957......2615313...1........................1............
41 Epilepsy9.613......11542.............................................
42 Convulsions53.452457..................1............1........................
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system93.2104191251510349.........1...1.........1......2......
44 Diseases of organs of special sense1.551121......................................................
45 Diseases of circulatory sysstem123.41271...922365271........................1...............
46 Croup16.9342266.........................................................
47 Bronchitis373.53206644585412320...321......1......2122021
48 Pneumonia116.4118142332331186...21......11...1...............
49 Pleurisy6.0111...2...51................................................
50 Other respiratory diseases63.1541111659111.......................................3...

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