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Whitechapel 1891

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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T able N.—METROPOLITAN DEATHS FOR 1891.

Causes of Death.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4 th Quar.Total.Causes of Death.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Totel.
All Causes2598525468I8446194408933940 Apoplexy6496494855082291
41 Epilepsy98119106111434
42 Convulsions6436215595512374
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system145712719999334660
1 Small PoxVaccinated11......2
Unvaccinated...21...344 Diseases of organs of special sense25253052132
No statement...3......3
2 Measles4934922594951739
3 Scarlet fever17811912916859445 Diseases of circulatory system2217212914715487241
4 Typhus23229
5 Relapsing fever...............
6 Influenza251960213102230046 Croup14010162108411
7 Whooping Cough682779591687273947 Bronchitis544036111158261912828
8 Diphtheria355318316361135048 Pneumonia240723707951274684!
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever6148134149 Pleurisy136111636137'
50 Other respiratory dis's6954292003001612
10 Enteric fever104124111211550
11 Simple cholera156167351 Dentition16015710096523
12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery1821911645414243252 Quinzy, sore throat2427241792
13 Remittent fever4.........453 Enteritis121115368155759
14 Hydrophobia1...11354 Peritonitis939810081372
15 Glanders2...2...455 Diseases of liver3053393543021300
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination23451456 Other diseases of digestive system4033834013431539
17 Venereal affections115119122113469
18 Erysipelas8146375321757 Diseases of lymohaticsystim and ductlessglands25352818108
19 Pyaemia & Septicaemia29202035104
20 Puerperal fever79414551216
21 Other zymotic diseases2521101773
22 Thrush71125l65958 Disea's urinary system6336155235392310
23 Worms and other parasitic diseases531615'
24 Starvation, want of breast-milk151322267659 Diseases of generative system80775666279
25 Alcoholism11314911510 5482
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart1458q629939560 Accidents of childbirth95766357291
27 Rheumatism3137222311361 Diseases of locomotive system106886374331
28 Gout45453440164
29 Rickets5881685826s__
30 Cancer798836804846328462 Diseases of integumentary system91807182324
31 Tabes Mesenterica2453234352911294
32 Tubercular meningitis3033512772521183
33 Phthisis22892300183319878409
34 Scrofula, tuberculosis224275310228IO37
35 Other constitutnl. dis's182182137142643VIOLENT DEATHS.
36 Premature birth598611583576236863 Accidents7336816206602694
37 Atelectasis2840273913464 Other than accidental.123134126114497
38 Congnitl. malformatns1151148685400
39 Old Age825770453530257865 Other causes6936368646882881