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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: TABLE M.—WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1892.

TABLE M.—WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1892.

Causes of Death.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.Causes of Death.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.
All causes543455429451187845 Diseases of circulatory system45273344149
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1 Small PoxVaccinated...............46 Croup541414
Unvaccin't'd...............47 Bronchitis87361851192
Nostatement...............48 Pneumonia44552641166
2 Measles4331365649 Pleurisy...1236
3 Scarlet Fever2413123150 Other respiratory dis'es188111249
4 Typhus.........11
5 Relapsing fever...............51 Dentition247417
6 Influenza556......6152 Quinzy, sore throat...11...2
7 Whooping cough2019224353 Enteritis...............
8 Diphtheria161021105754 Peritonitis241411
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever...............55 Diseases of liver358723
56 Other diseases of digestive system1613372389
10 Enteric fever...11I3
11 Simple cholera...............
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery272543857 Diseases of lymphatic syst'm& ductless glands...............
13 Remittent fever..............
14 Hydrophobia...............
15 Glanders...............58 Diseases of urinary sys'm111091545
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination...............
59 Diseases, generative system1...1...2
17 Venereal affeftions12227
18 Erysipelas...143860 Accidents of childbirth358622
19 Pyaemia and Septicaemia......1...1
20 Puerperal fever1...113
21 Other Zymotic diseases...............61 Diseases of locomotive system153...9
22 Thrush...............
62 Diseases of integumentary system11...35
23 Worms and other Parasitic diseases...............
24 Starvation, want of breast milk41...16VIOLENT DEATHS. A ccident.
25 Alcoholism12...2563 Fracture and contusion474621
64 Gun-shot wounds...............
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart2...11465 Cut, stab...............
66 Burn and scald31138
27 Rheumatism1...11367 Poison...............
28 Gout...11...268 Drowning...............
29 Rickets...422869 Suffocation5431123
30 Cancer61411144570 Otherwise11...13
31 Tabes Mesenterica429621Homicide.
32 Tubercular Meningitis485825
33 Phthisis4143314516071 Murder & manslaughter......2...2
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis555318
35 Other constitut'l diseas's35294425133Suicide.
72 Gun-shot wounds1.........1
36 Premature birth7716636
73 Cut, stab...............
37 Atelectasis.........2274 Poison...............
38 Congenital malformatns................75 Drowning...............
39 Old age21143195776 Hanging.........11
77 Otherwise...............
40 Apoplexy596727
Execution.
41 Epilepsy11114
42 Convulsions121412135178 Hanging...............
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system4025221299
79 Inquest...............
80 Other causes...............
44 Diseases of organs of special sense...1...23