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Whitechapel 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table J.—METROPOLITAN DEATHS FOR 1886.

Causes of Death.1 st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.Causes of Death.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.
All Causes.........257091777219351194298226145 Diseases of circulatory system20561317117415696116
46 Croup17310899143523
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
47 Bronchitis545818321037295711284
1 Small PoxVaccinated...............48 Pneumonia11756106464011904650
Unvaccinatec...1......149 Pleurisy87674760261
No statement1111450 Other respiratory dis's6153352244131587
2 Measles5075373906442078
3 Scarlet fever10210217331068751 Dentition256180153104693
4 Typhus32351352 Quinzy, sore throat2222212489
5 Relapsing fever.........1153 Enteritis8691223118518
6 Influenza21...2554 Peritonitis96817175323
7 Whooping Cough1551787295202283555 Diseases of liver3673843793941524
8 Diphtheria220188185253846
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever.181820147056 Other diseases of digestive system4243544163771571
57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands29332627115
10 Enteric fever124101175219619
11 Simple cholera...61256137
12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery201244A J 3132373j / 3950
13 Remittent fever54832058 Disea's urinary system5815044305352050
14 Hydrophobia522...9
15 Glanders1......12
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination...22...459 Diseases, generative system78815569283
17 Venereal affections151103166124544
60 Accidents of childbirth60497848235
18 Erysipelas58555787257
19 Pyaemia & Septicaemia3639253413461 Diseases of locomotive system1139743101354
20 Puerperal fever66656979279
21 Other zymotic diseases1518191870
22 Thrush2224462111362 Diseases of integumentary system77597067273
23 Worms and other parasitic diseases154818
VIOLENT DEATHS.
24 Starvation, want of breast-milk1314392591
Accident. 63 Fracture and contusion266261235208970
25 Alcoholism6650554922064 Gun shot wounds244313
65 Cut, stab151310
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart114767696362
66 Burn and scald118555260285
67 Poison1715151663
27 Rheumatism43272113104
68 Drowning418413169325
28 Gout4542262513869 Suffocationl83145112155595
70 Otherwise30364719132
29 Rickets78574934218
30 Cancer6576536757032688
Homicide. 71 Murder & mansPghter1919161468
31 Tabes Mesenterica3003006463451591
32 Tubercular meningitis3393553232361253
Suicide. 72 Gun shot wounds51691040
33 Phthisis23202046191320538332
34 Scrofula, tuberculosis240230278206954
35 Other constitutnl. dis's152129112128521
73 Cut, stab1229222487
36 Premature birth5014794674831930
74 Poison2430211893
37 Atelectasis3127373312875 Drowning1318231165
76 Hanging283°22989
38 Congnitl. malformatns90847570319
77 Otherwise786829
39 Old Age9186045026282652
40 Apoplexy6474684645542133Execution. 78 Hanging...............
41 Epilepsy101988288369
42 Convulsions6785536175422390
79 Inquest1791380128514485892
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system13191097102110254462
80 Other causes83562910417543259
44 Diseases of organs of special sense33363336138
81 Uncertified deaths297209207237950