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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 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: Table G.—DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANALYSIS OF CASES.

Table G.—DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANALYSIS OF CASES.

Diseases.1 st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.Diseases.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.
All Causes1114689760938350140 Apoplexy......1...1
41 Epilepsy22217
42 Convulsions......213
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system53404742182
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1 Small PoxVaccinated...............44 Diseases of organs of special sense474722
Unvaccinat'd...............
No statement...2......245 Diseases of circulatory system1116220
2 Measles...1122427S
3 Scarlet Fever3314424
4 Typhus...............
5 Relapsing Fever...............46 Croup2...2...4
6 Influenza...............47 Bronchitis3079292164655
7 Whooping cough831...1248 Pneumonia823720
8 Diphtheria...............49 Pleurisy622111
9 Simple, Continued and ill-defined fever1...4...550 Other respiratory diseases974636115294
51 Dentition358925
10 Enteric fever......1...1
11 Simple cholera...............52 Quinzy, sore throat611121140
12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery81147...7553 Enteritis...............
13 Remittent fever...............54 Peritonitis...............
14 Hydrophobia...............55 Diseases of liver...13...4
15 Glanders...1......156 Other diseases of digestive system65374637185
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination...............
57 Diseases of Lymphatic) system and ductless glands...47112
17 Venereal affections10991341
18 Erysipelas .14...49
19 Pyaemia and Septicæmia...............
20 Puerperal Fever...............58 Diseases of urinary syst'm1094629
21 Other Zymotic Diseases......1...1
22 Thrush...............59 Diseases, generative system1919121767
23 Worms and other para sitic diseases11......2
60 Accidents of childbirth636520
24 Starvation, want of breast-milk......2...2
61 Diseases of Locomotive system88667695325
25 Alcoholism143...8
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart......1...162 Diseases of integumentary system60553651202
27 Rheumatism166105103147521
VIOLENCE.— ccident.
20 Gout6115628
29 Rickets...............63 Fracture and contusion36323036134
30 Cancer11......264 Gun shot wounds...............
31 Tabes Mesenterica......11265 Cut, stab1......12
32 Tubercular Meningitis......1...166 Burn or scald...3115
33 Phthisis1111773667 Poison13239
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis33......668 Drowning...............
35 Other constitutnl.diseases1131543369 Suffocation...............
70 Otherwise...............
36 Premature birth...1.........
37 Atelectasis...............71 Other Causes87567179293
38 Congenital malformations...............
39 Old age11912941Total11146897609383501