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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 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: Table H.— DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS' ANALYSIS OF CASES FOR 1889 .

Table H.— DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS' ANALYSIS OF CASES FOR 1889 .

Diseases.1 st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.Diseases.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total
All Causes120993990611683 422240 Apoplexy..12...3
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.41 Epilepsy612413
42 Convulsions1326
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system48575148204
1 Small PoxVaccinated...2............
Unvaccinat'd...............44 Diseases of organs of special sense1110111042
No statement.........11
2 Measles3121121983
3 Scarlet Fever......31445 Diseases of circulatory system36343339142
4 Typhus...............
5 Relapsing Fever...............
6 Influenza...............46 Croup......211
7 Whooping cough...1...4547 Bronchitis1878481147499
8 Diphtheria11...1348 Pneumonia17441439
9 Simple, Continued and ill-defined fever..............49 Pleurisy5141323
50 Other respiratory diseases1479947182475
10 Enteric fever......112
11 Simple cholera...............51 Dentition542213
12 Diarrhoea, Dysenterys1649108052 Quinzy, sore throat1315161761
13 Remittent fever...............53 Enteritis...............
14 Hydrophobia...............54 Peritonitis.........11
15 Glanders...............
55 Diseases of liver486725
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination...............
56 Other diseases of digestivesystem59505545209
17 Venereal affections714351369
18 Erysipelas42371657 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands43..1320
19 Pyaemia and Septicaemia...............
20 Puerperal Fever
21 Other Zymotic diseases...1......158 Diseases of urinary syst'm1623151872
22 Thrush...............
23 Worms and other parasitic diseases1...22559 Diseases of generative system5955335420!
24 Starvation, want of breast-milk......31460 Accidents of childbirth1029...21
25 Alcoholism35631761 Diseases of locomotive system128115111118472
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart11......2
62 Diseases of integumentary system92796347281
27 Rheumatism14810210214042
28 Gout143210
29 Rickets...............VIOLENCE.— Accident.
30 Cancer...1236
31 Tabes Mesenterica.........2263 Fracture and contusion...423442...54
J2 Tubercular Meningitis...............64 Gun shot wounds.........36.
33 Phthisis151619227265 Cut, stab522211
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis1...11366 Burn or scald213612
J5 Other constitutnl.diseases...213...1567 Poison...1113
56 Premature birth...............68 Drowing...............
69 Suffocation...............
57 Atelectasis...............70 Otherwise...............
38 Congenital malformations...............
39 Old age1123771 Other Causes916555105316