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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 1888

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: T able H.—DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS' ANALYSIS OF CASES.

T able H.—DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS' ANALYSIS OF CASES.

Diseases.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.Diseases.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.
All Causes1259901936983407940 Apoplexy21...14
41 Epilepsy32139
42 Convulsions32...16
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system67475045209
1 Small PoxVaccinated...............
Unvaccinat'd...............44 Diseases of organs of special sense1147830
No statement...............
2 Measles...1715255745 Diseases of circulatory system47283327135
3 Scarlet Fever5l6!7240
4 Typhus...............
5 Relapsing Fever...............
6 Influenza...............46 Croup1...1...2
7 Whooping cough1125...1847 Bronchitis24610083127556
8 Diphtheria...............48 Pneumonia1693735
9 Simple, Continued and ill.defined fever...............49 Pleurisy256215
50 Other respiratory diseases1456257115379
10 Enteric fever.........55
11 Simple cholera...............51 Dentition10511329
12 Diarrhœa, Dysentery1073345452 Quinzy, sore throat12116736
13 Remittent fever...............53 Enteritis...............
14 Hydrophobia...............54 Pertionitis...1...12
15 Glanders...............55 Diseases of liver9818944
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination...............56 Other diseases of diges. tive system64615251228
17 Venereal affections1810201159
18 Erysipelas461032357 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands764421
l9 Pyæmia and Septicæmia...............
20 Puerperal Fever...............
21 Otner Zymotic diseases5...2...7
58 Diseases of urinary syst'm1613112666
22 Thrush...............
23 Worms and other para. sitic diseases...2......259 Diseases, generative system42483532157
24 Starvation, want of breast.milk......13460 Accidents of childbirth228416
25 Alcoholism1341961 Diseases of locomotive system10510991136441
Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart...............
62 Diseases of integu. mentary system57707450251
27 Rheumatism170109138115532
28 Gout872522
29 Rickets11......2VIOLENCE.— Accident.
30 Cancer711...9
31 Tabes Mesenterica31...61063 Fracture and contusion38334028139
32 Tubercular Meningitis...............64 Gun shot wounds...............
33 Phthisis281318218065 Cut, stab2...2711
34 Scrofula Tuberculosis......5...556 Burn or scald21227
35 Other constitutnl.diseases831012267 Poison...1326
68 Drowning...............
36 Premature birth...............69 Suffocation...............
37 Atelectasis...............70 Otherwise...............
38 Congenital malformations...............
39 Old age17521571 Other Causes70675281270