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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
Whitechapel 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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Table D. —Statement for Year 1884 (Fifty-three Weeks.)
| All causes | 83051 | 1571 | 3113 | 399J | 46 Croup | 744 | 23 | 6 | ||
| ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | ‡ | 47 Bronchitis | 9211 | 243 | 411 | 362 | ||||
| 48 Pneumonia | 4254 | 97 | 8 | 41 | ||||||
| lfSmall-pox | Vaccinated | 249 | 1 | ! 4 | 3 | 49 pleurisy | 261 | 4 | 8 | 50 |
| llnvaccinated | 324 | 3 | 1 2 | 50 Other respiratory dis- eases | 1484 | 28 | 211 | 71 | ||
| No statement | 346 | 11 | . 64 | 5 | ||||||
| 2 Measles | 2285 | 26 | 51 | 17 | ||||||
| 3 Scarlet fever | 1444 | 45 | 35 | 9 | 51 Dentition | 796 | 30 | 34 | 27 | |
| 4 Typhus fever | 31 | 2 | 52 Quinsy, sore throat | 102 | 3 | 30 | 39 | |||
| 5 Helapsing fever | 1 | 53 Enteritis | 336 | 1 | 11 | |||||
| 6. Influenza | 6 | 29 | 54 Peritonitis | 340 | 5 | V | ||||
| 7. Whooping cough | 3188 | 50 | 25 | 19 | 55 Diseases of liver | 1555 | 22 | 8 | 35 | |
| 8 Diphtheria | 973 | 8 | 5 | 56 Other diseases of diges- tive system | 1662 | 19 | 156 | 102 | ||
| 9 Simple, Continued, and ill-defined fever | 78 | 2 | 114 . | 70 | ||||||
| 10 Enteric fever | 930 | 15 | 5 | 11 | 57 Diseases of lymphatic) system and ductless glands | 105 | 1 | 9 | 36 | |
| 11 Simple cholera | 163 | 1 | ||||||||
| 12 Diarrhcea, Dysentery ... | 3781 | 91 | 73 | 105 | ||||||
| 13 Remittent fever | 20 | 21 | 58 Diseases of urinary system | 1878 | 38 | 20 | 62 | |||
| 14 Hvdrophobia | 9 | |||||||||
| 15 Glanders | ... | |||||||||
| 16 Cow-pox and effects of vaccination | 12 | ... | 3 | 59 Diseases, generative system | 315 | 2 | 42 | 150 | ||
| 17 Venereal affections | 537 | 14 | 34 | 153 | ||||||
| 18. Erysipelas | 381 | 9 | 8 | u3 | ||||||
| 19 Pytemia and Septicffimia. | 159 | 2 | 18 | 60 Accidentsof child-birth. | 193 | 6 | §32 | §85 | ||
| 20 Puerperal fever | 327 | 6 | ||||||||
| 21 Other zymotic diseases .. | 102 | 38 | 61 Diseases of locomotive system | 381 | 4 | 114 | 52 | |||
| 22 Thrush | 119 | 7 | 62 Ulcers | 225 | 239 | |||||
| 23 Worms and other para- sitic diseases | 17 | 2 | 10 | |||||||
| 63 Diseases of integu-mentary system | 289 | 9 | 239 | 171 | ||||||
| 24 Starvation, want of breast-milk | 87 | 1 | 20 | |||||||
| VIOLENT DEATHS. Accident. | ||||||||||
| 25 Alcoholism | 243 | 3 | 3 | 49 | ||||||
| 26 Rheumatic fever and 1 rheumatism of heart | 444 | 1 | 42 | 64 Fracture and contusion | 1065 | 18 | 115 | 259 | ||
| 65 Gun-shot wounds | 8 | |||||||||
| 27 Rheumatism | 140 | 6 | 461 | 320 | 66 Cut, stab | 27 | 1 | 3 | f>7 | |
| 28 Gout | 163 | 24 | 42 | 67 Burn and scald | 288 | 10 | 6 | 35 | ||
| 29 Rickets | 190 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 68 Poison | 60 | 4 | |||
| 30 Cancer | 2623 | 25 | 6 | "3 | 69 Drowning | 304 | 1 | |||
| 31 Tabes mesentcrica | 1594 | 23 | 2 | 22 | 70 Suffocation | 602 | 26 | |||
| 32 Tubercular meningitis | 1316 | 36 | 7 | 7 | 71 Otherwise | 168 | 3 | |||
| 33 Phthisis | 8881 | 149 | 26 | 11/ | Homicide. | |||||
| 34 Scrofula, tuberculosis | 994 | 4 | 4 | 37 | ||||||
| 35 Other constitutional . diseases | 515 | 90 | 97 | 137 | 72 Murder & manslaughter | 70 | ||||
| 36 Premature birth | 1911 | 25 | 1 | 14 | Suicide. | |||||
| 73 Gun-shot wounds | 42 | |||||||||
| 37 Atelectasis | 126 | 74 Cut, stab | 80 | |||||||
| 38 Congenitl. malformations | 353 | 2 | 12 | 75 Poison | 70 | 2 | ||||
| 39 Old age | 2473 | 55 | 25 | 134 | 76 Drowning | 71 | ||||
| 77 Hanging | 71 | |||||||||
| 40 Apoplexy | 2141 | 43 | 45 | 71 Otherwise | 33 | 1 | ||||
| 41 Epilepsy | 378 | 9 | 10 | 69 | Execution. | |||||
| 42 Convulsions | 2002 | 39 | 3 | 22 | ||||||
| 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 4438 | 77 | 160 | 179 | 79 Hanging | 2 | ||||
| 44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 121 | 1 | 14 | 73 | 80 Inquests | *5732' | *141 | |||
| 81 Other causes | 3501 | 3 | 151 | 38 | ||||||
| 45 Diseases of circulatory system | 5472 | 98 | 21 | 91 | 82 Uncertified deaths | *1051 | *10 | 1 | ||
* Numbers thus marked are not included in the sums total. + These numbers are exclusive of the
deaths of Londoners from small-pox outside Hegistration London; for the last half-year these
amounted to 251. J Inclusive of residents who died in outlying institutions. § Accouchement cases.