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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: TABLE M.—WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1888.

TABLE M.—WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1888.

Causes of Death.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.Causes of Death.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.
All causes469323396386157445 Diseases of circulatory system30252735117
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1 Small PoxVaccinated...............46 Croup934218
Unvaccin't'd...............47 Bronchitis95442753219
No statement...............48 Pneumonia39162526106
2 Measles...76112449 Pleurisy......112
3 Scarel Fever81451850 Other respiratory dis'es8851132
4 Typhus...............
5 Relapsing fever...............51 Dentition238114
6 Influenza...............52 Quinzy, sore throat...............
7 Whooping cough2881...3753 Enteritis...............
8 Diphtheria235112154 Peritonitis21115
9 Simple, continued and ill.defined fever...............55 Diseases of liver244313
56 Other diseases of digestive system191022859
10 Enteric fever422513
11 Simple cholera...............
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery143785057 Diseases of lymphatic syst'm& ductless glands1.........1
13 Remittent fever...............
14 Hydrophobia...............
15 Glanders...............58 Diseases of urinary sys'm18814848
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination...............59 Diseases, generative system...11...2
17 Venereal affections51118
18 Erysipelas31...15
19 Pyaemia and Septicæmia......2...260 Accidents at childbirth1...236
20 Puerperal fever...............
21 Other Zymotic diseases...............61 Diseases of locomotive system1...124
22 Thrush...1...12
23 Worms and other Parasitic diseases...............62 Diseases of integumentary system2...529
24 Starvation, want of breast milk...3......3VIOLENT DEATHS. Accident.
25 Alcoholism1212663 Fracture and contusion557623
64 Gun.shot wounds...............
26 Kheumatic fever and rheumatism of herat.........1165 Cut, stab.........11
66 Burn and scald31149
27 Rheumatism2.........267 Posion............
28 Gout...............68 Drowning...11...2
29 Rickets...111369 Suffocation4114827
30 Cancer1213293670 Otherwise.........11
31 Tab61013837
32 Tubercular Meningitis54514Homicide.
33 Phthisis3734344615171 Murder & manslaughter1I327
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis538420
35 Other constitute diseas's1214192267Suicide.
72 Gun.shot wounds...............
3o Premature birth94752573 Cut, stab1.........1
37 Atelectasis...............74 Poison......112
38 Congenital malformatns.4.........475 Drowning...............
39 Old age241620208076 Hanging.........11
77 Otherwise...............
40 Apoplexy8881337
41 Epilepsy224210Execution.
42 Convulsions1882345378 Hanging...............
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system30302726113
79 Inquest71645971265
44 Diseases of organs ot special sense...1......180 Other causes......2...2
81 Uncertified deaths511310