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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 M.—WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1890.

TABLE M.—WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1890.

Causes of Death.1 st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.Causes of Death.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.
All causes543407465451186645 Diseases of circulatory system32282438122
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1 Small PoxVaccinated...............46 Croup544518
Unvaccin't'd...............47 Bronchitis119532278272
Nostatement...............48 Pneumonia59333140163
2 Measles71323165949 Pleurisy......1...1
3 Scarlet Fever3...861750 Other respiratory dis'es15311635
4 Typhus...............
5 Relapsing fever...............51 Dentition559423
6 Influenza3.........352 Quinzy, sore throat...32...5
7 Whooping cough1823655253 Enteritis...............
8 Diphtheria6814255354 Peritonitis......426
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever...............55 Diseases of liver743721
10 Enteric fever424616Other diseases of diges tive system1216351578
11 Simple cholera...............
12 Diarrhœa, dysentery364555957 Diseases of lymphatic syst'm& ductless glands......112
13 Remittent fever...............
14 Hydrophobia...............
15 Glanders...............58 Diseases of urinary sys'm1517181666
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination...............
59 Diseases, generative system231...6
17 Venereal affections343111
18 Erysipelas......1...1
19 Pyaemia and Septicaemia...............60 Accidents at childbirth14117
20 Puerperal fever11......2
21 Other Zymotic diseases................61 Diseases of locomotive system1...1...2
22 Thrush...............
23 Worms and other Parasitic diseases...............62 Diseases of integumentary system124...7
24 Starvation, want of breast milk...............VIOLENT DEATHS. Accident.
25 Alcoholism311...563 Fracture and contusion115613
64 Gun-shot wounds...............
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart......1...165 Cut, stab1.........1
66 Burn and scald42129
27 Rheumatism1.........167 Poison.........11
28 Gout......1...168 Drowning......1...1
29 Rickets2211669 Suffocation3841025
30 Cancer1385103670 Otherwise4...1...5
31 Tabes Mesenterica437620Homicide.
32 Tubercular Meningitis126413
33 Phthisis6039464418971 Murder & manslaughter......1...1
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis218213
35 Other constitute diseas's2726281899Suicide.
72 Gun-shot wounds11......2
36 Premature birth512783273 Cut, stab......1...1
37 Atelectasis...............74 Poison...1113
38 Congenital malformatns...............75 Drowning1.........1
39 Old age311812127376 Hanging11...13
77 Otherwise...............
40 Apoplexy71051032Execution.
41 Epilepsy3......14
42 Convulsions171117166178 Hanging...............
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system29272721104
79 Other causes...11...2
44 Diseases of organs of special sense......11