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Whitechapel 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table N.—METROPOLITAN 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 Causes315772042118292208599114940 Apoplexy6715364895892285
41 Epilepsy1251068888407
ZMOTIC DISEASES.42 Convulsions6694595635132204
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system1346108189010394356
1 Small PoxVaccinated274215
Unvaccinated...9411444 Diseases of organs of special sense35383835146
No statement362112
2 Measles89915986563943547
3 Scarlet fever156257354421111845 Diseases of circulatory system23821672138619387378
4 Typhus „334111
5 Relapsing fever......1...1
6 Influenza2101993170230146 Croup126504165282
7 Whooping Cough1573681227176265747 Bronchitis69091777878254612110
8 Diphtheria350414475683192248 Pneumonia2533166481014136420
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever.72842149 Pleurisy801015281314
50 Other respiratory dis's7122931923731570
10 Enteric fever7882109178447
11 Simple cholera4116578751 Dentition15413010997490
12 Diarrhœa, Dysentery2232801744324257152 Quinzy, sore throat2326252599
13 Remittent fever...1...2353 Enteritis150134349153786
14 Hydrophobia...............54 Peritonitis75819085331
15 Glanders......12355 Diseases of liver3133053303171265
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination72292056 Other diseases of digestive system4093513943981552
17 Venereal affections108119139148514
18 Erysipelas57547411229757 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands2918193096
19 Pyæmia & Septicaemia22193438113
20 Puerperal fever605092120322
21 Other zymotic diseases231928198958 Disea's urinary system6225394675992227
22 Thrush2612221575
23 Worms and other parasitic diseases15721559 Diseases of generative system51575693257
24 Starvation, want of breast-milk37202932118
60 Accidents of childbirth77716892308
25 Alcoholism123111119144497
26 Rheumatic fever and reumatism of heart868981159415
61 Diseases of locomotive system94877881340
27 Rhematism30372233122
28 Gout51392841159
29 Rickets8697545629362 Diseases of integumentary system768081107344
30 Cancer7947837918643232
31 Tabes mesenterica3232754312921321
32 Tubercular meningitis2883543232931258
33 Phthisis24822003170821018294VIOLENT DEATHS.
34 Scrofula tuberculosis2722582752241029
35 other constitutnl. dis's165148148185646
36 Premature birth674577551637243963 Accidents7947186067072825
37 Atelectasis4438394516664 Other than accidental.117159132124532
38 Congnitl malformatns102917811238365 Other causes82666l8488013136
39 Old age9195774535232472