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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 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: Table H.—DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS' ANALYSIS OF CASES FOR 1890.

Table H.—DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS' ANALYSIS OF CASES FOR 1890.

Diseases.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.Diseases.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.
All Causes14979539781282471040 Apoplexy...2...13
41 Epilepsy236516
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.42 Convulsions......1...1
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system68483252200
1 Small PoxVaccinated...............
Unvaccinat'd...............44 Diseases of organs of special sense69112147
No statement...............
2 Measles13124177345 Diseases of circulatory system55291920123
3 Scarlet Fever32139
4 Typhus...............
5 Relapsing Fever...............
6 Influenza107.........10746 Croup...............
7 Whooping cough219233547 Bronchitis2186381154516
8 Diphtheria.........1148 Pneumonia201221044
9 Simple, Continued and ill-defined fever......1...149 Pleurisy8...1514
50 Other respiratory diseases25310989166617
10 Enteric fever.........11
11 Simple cholera...............51 Dentition543315
12 Diarrhœa, Dysentery6943157352 Quinzy, sore throat811142861
13 Remittent fever...............53 Enteritis...............
14 Hydrophobia...............54 Peritonitis1...214
15 Glanders...............55 Diseases of liver846321
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination...............56 Other diseases of digestive system58484667219
17 Venereal affections141311644
18 Erysipelas43141257 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands764320
19 Pyæmia and Septicæmia...............
20 Puerperal Fever................
21 Other Zymotic diseases2...237
22 Thrush1......2358 Diseases of urinary syst'm2420152281
23 Worms and other para sitic diseases1.........159 Diseases of generative system52496250213
24 Starvation, want of breast-milk11......260 Accidents of childbirth211...4
25 Alcoholism76221761 Diseases of locomotive system141131100152524
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart......3...3
62 Diseases of integumentary system565311278299
27 Rheumatism1561191091403 524
28 Gout244212
29 Rickets......112VIOLENCE.— Accident.
30 Cancer22...26
31 Tabes Mesenterica12......363 Fracture and constusion43333147154
32 Tubercular Meningitis...............64 Gun shot wounds...............
33 Phthisis181114216465 Cut, stab...2...13
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis...............66 Burn or scald33118
35 Other constitutnl. diseases1411243167 Poison56...112
36 Premature birth...............68 Drowning...............
37 Atelectasis...............69 Suffocation...............
38 Congenital malformations...............70 Otherwise2.........2
39 Old age53111071 Other Causes8691108163448