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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 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: T able H.—DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS' ANALYSIS OF CASES FOR 1892.

T able H.—DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS' ANALYSIS OF CASES FOR 1892.

Diseases.1 st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.Diseases.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.
All Causes1646115712741465554240 Apoplexy221...5
41 Epilepsy724215
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.42 Convulsions...11...2
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system.58546743222
1 Small PoxVaccinated...............
Unvacci...............44 Diseases of organs special sense1713181563
No statement...............
2 Measles24733587
3 Scarlet Fever...3741445 Diseases of circulatory system2914171878
4 Typhus.........11
5 Relapsing Fever...............
6 Influenza12115204219846 Croup.........11
7 Whooping cough67111547 Bronchitis2139952121485
8 Diphtheria2112648 Pneumonia513615
9 Simple, Continued-and ill-defined fever......2...249 Pleurisy642517
50 Other respiratory diseases250134125238747
10 Enteric fever...............
11 Simple cholera...............51 Dentition513211
12 Diarrhcea, Dysentery13832156852 Quinzy, sore throat1414212473
13 Remittent fever...............53 Enteritis...............
14 Hydrophobia...............54 Peritonitis...1......1
15 Glanders...............55 Diseases of liver...1225
16 Cow pox and effects ofvaccination...............56 Other diseases of digestive system71487959257
17 Venereal affections1320122469
18 Erysipelas128172857 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands...2349
19 Pyæmia and Septicaemia...............
20 Puerperal Fever...............
21 Other Zymotic diseases122...558 Diseases of urinary syst'm35153529114
22 Thrush...............
23 Worms and other para-sitic diseases1133859 Diseases of generative system57625075244
24 Starvation, want of breast-milk6713113760 Accidents of childbirth...13...4
25 Alcoholism98472861 Diseases of locomotive system120122126134502
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart...............
62 Diseases of integumentary system92728085327
27 Rheumatism120111118144493
28 Gout4118831
29 Rickets...............VIOLENCE.—Accident................
30 Cancer115...7
31 Tabes Mesenterica......21363 Fracture and contusion44253541145
32 Tubercular Meningitis...............64 Gun shot wounds...............
33 Phthisis121113155165 Cut, stab64...313
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis...222666 Burn or scald31......4
35 Other constitutnl.diseases82672367 Poison...2...13
36 Premature birth.........1168 Drowning...............
69 Suffocation...............
37 Atelectasis...............70 Otherwise...............
38 Congenital malformations............71 Other Causes287196244238965
39 Old age5911934