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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 M— WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1889.

TABLE M— WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1889.

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 causes4403523384°3153345 Diseases of circulatory system26362134117
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1 Small PoxVaccinated...........46 Croup1091828
Unvaccin't'd...............47 Bronchitis63282365179
Nostatement...............48 Pneumonia34211531101
2 Measles112511206749 Pleurisy2...125
3 Scarlet Fever...2......250 Other respiratory dis'es15441437
4 Typhus...............
5 Relapsing fever...............51 Dentition581519
6 Influenza...............52 Quinzy, sore throat21...14
7 Whooping cough32251253 Enteritis...............
8 Diphtheria588123354 Peritonitis2...2...4
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever...............55 Diseases of liver355518
56 Other diseases of digestive system91126854
10 Enteric fever1...629
11 Simple cholera......2...2
12 Diarrhœa, dysentery2845106557 Diseases of lymphatic syst'm& ductless glands.........11
13 Remittent fever...............
14 Hydrophobia...............
15 Glanders...............58 Diseases of urinary sys'm14168543
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination...............
59 Diseases, generative system11...24
17 Venereal affections...1113
18 Erysipelas11......2
19 Pyaemia and Septicaemia21...1460 Accidents at childbirth...3216
20 Puerperal fever...............
21 Other Zymotic diseases...............61 Diseases of locomotive system1......12
22 Thrush...1......1
62 Diseases of integumentary system42118
23 Worms and other Parasitic diseases......1...1
24 Starvation, want of breast milk1...2...3VIOLENT DEATHS. Accident................
25 Alcoholism131...563 Fracture and contusion945...18
64 Gun-shot wounds1............
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart......314
65 Cut, stab.........11
66 Burn and scald11125
27 RheumatismI3......467 Poison...............
28 Gout...............68 Drowning...11......
29 Rickets...231669 Suffocation591217
30 Cancer13108104170 Otherwise......145
31 Tabes Mesenterica634215
32 Tubercular Meningitis141410Homicide.
33 Phthisis4234314715471 Murder & manslaughter1.........1
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis1743...24
35 Other constitut'l diseas's2316302089Suicide.
72 Gun-shot wounds...............
36 Premature birth11S632573 Cut, stab1.........1
37 Atelectasis...............74 Poison11114
38 Congenital malformatns................75 Drowning...............
39 Old age411716229676 Hanging1.........1
77 Otherwise.........11
40 Apoplexy8711127
41 Epilepsy2...136Execution.
42 Convulsions1051283578 Hanging...............
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system27292024100
79 Other causes.........11
44 Diseases of organs of special sense...............