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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 1891

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: TABLE M.-WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1891.

TABLE M.-WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1891.

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 causes562482400395183945 Diseases of circulatory system47363237152
ZYMOTIC DISEASES
1 Small Pox •Vaccinated...............46 Croup451313
Unvaccin't'd...............47 Bronchitis106584355262
Nostatement...............48 Pneumonia61652135182
2 Measles1411563649 Pleurisy...1113
3 Scarlet Fever3......5850 Other respiratory dis'es18881145
4 Typhus...............
5 Relapsing fever...............51 Dentition223310
6 Influenza...41455052 Quinzy, sore throat.........11
7 Whooping cough106783153 Enteritis...............
8 Diphtheriat,810..1654954 Peritonitis
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever.........1155 Diseases of liver356115
56 Other diseases of digestive system1612162165
10 Enteric fever13217
11 Simple cholera
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery5544557 Diseases of lymphatic syst'm& ductless glands2.........2
13 Remittent fever...............
14 Hydrophobia...............
15 Glanders...............58 Diseases of urinary sys'm17129543
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination...............
59 Diseases, generative system141...6
17 Venereal affedtions3129
18 Erysipelas1.........1
19 Pyaemia and Septicaemia......12360 Accidents at childbirth124310
20 Puerperal fever1.........1
21 Other Zymotic diseases...1......161 Diseases of locomotive system11114
22 Thrush...............
23 Worms and other Para sitic diseases...............62 Diseases of integumentary system131...5
24 Starvation, want ol breast milk......22VIOLENT DEATHS.
Accident.
25 Alcoholism1......1263 Fracture and contusion143715
64 Gun-shot wounds...............
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart......11265 Cut, stab...............
66 Burn and scald33...28
27 Rheumatism2221767 Poison1.........1
28 Gout1.........168 Drowning1113
29 Rickets...12...369 Suffocation564722
30 Cancer126813^970 Otherwise21...14
31 Tabes Mesenterica210722
32Tubercular Meningitis24219Homicide.
33Phthisis4452445119171 Murder & manslaughter1.........1
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis574420
35 Other constitut'l diseas's23224328Il6Suicide.
-72 Gun-shot wounds...............
36 Premature birth981033073 Cut, stab...............
37 Atelectasis...............74 Poison...............
38 Congenital malformatns................75 Drowning...............
39 Old age29159126576 Hanging.........11
77 Otherwise...............
40 Apoplexy1468735
41 Epilepsy.562215Execution.
42 Convulsions211414105978 Hanging...............
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system342119158979 Inquest95968677354
44 Diseases of organs ot special sense......11280 Other causes1...1...2