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Whitechapel 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table N.—METROPOLITAN DEATHS FOR 1890.

Causes of Death.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4 th Quar.Total.Causes of Death.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total
All Causes259901904819965227358773845 Diseases of circulatory system21961623147719307220
46 Croup1609081I48479
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
47 Bronchitis494819741325355111798
1 Small PoxVaccinated......1...148 Pneumonia1977135897816485961
Unvaccinated...............49 Pleurisy81776492314
No statement12......350 Other respiratory dis's6232762284811608
2 Measles3389829379483205
3 Scarlet fever18516722727785651 Dentition207169116122614
4 Typhus16121052 Quinzy, sore throat30322234118
5 Relapsing fever...............53 Enteritis111113350161735
6 Influenza55847162664754 Peritonitis798410489356
7 Whooping Cough12271051588368323455 Diseases of liver3503343463221352
8 Diphtheria337278308469139256 Other diseases of digestive system3493723883851494
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever879933
10 Enteric fever1067916425260157 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands.25332645129
11 Simple cholera...669883
12 Diarrhœa, Dysentery14421118854882728
13 Remittent fever13217
14 Hydrophobia11......258 Disea's urinary system5825154785622132
15 Glanders...............
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination...133759 Diseases of generative system81778671313
17 Venereal affections13711815711752960 Accidents of childbirth42545348192
18 Erysipelas60623584241
19 Pyaemia & Septicæmia29292550133
20 Puerperal fever5461497023461 Diseases of locomotive system1031029284381
21 Other zymotic diseases2415121162
22 Thrush151627187662 Diseases of integumentary system76578069282
23 Worms and other parasitic diseases328417
VIOLENT DEATHS. Accident.
24 Starvation, want of breast-milk1711271772
25 Alcoholism1479710411646463 Fracture and contusion2762492722691066
64 Gun shot wounds...1236???
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart105838715442965 Cut, stab2261111???
66 Burn and scald1104849118325
27 Rheumatism4021173110967 Poison181781760???
28 Gout3942434016468 Drowning517411256293
29 Rickets7176755627869 Suffocation223153121174671
30 Cancer800668863835316670 Otherwise30303738135
31 Tabes Mesenterica25225651634S1372Homicide.
32 Tubercular meningitis2923393302581219
33 Phthisis2844190917572204871471 Murder & mansl'ghter2618181173
34 Scrofula, tuberculosis228208242251929Suicide.
35 Other constitutnl. dis's186116116160578
72 Gun shot wounds31472145
36 Premature birth581521515568218573 Cut, stab1516131054
37 Atelectasis2331312611174 Poison142527975
38 Congnitl. malformatns.8178799933775 Drowning1113161252
39 Old Age804582507680257376 Hanging3218121880
77 Otherwise15611941
40 Apoplexy6245204935912228Execution.
41 Epilepsy88787996341
42 Convulsions666523592527230878 Hanging112...4???
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system12781074104410944490
79 Other causes7136128887272940
44 Diseases of organs of special sense35343044143