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Whitechapel 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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T able (M).—WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1895.

Causes of Death.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.Causes of Death.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.
All causes508379478439180445 Diseases of the circulatory system56263434150
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
46 Croup262414
1 Small-PoxVaccinated....2..247 Bronchitis125362253236
Unvaccinated....1..148 Pneumonia49363548168
No statement....1..149 Pleurisy21126
2 Measles4323237150 Other respiratory diseases9581133
3 Scarlet Fever..381223
4 Typhus „..........51 Dentition545317
5 Relapsing Fever..........52 Quinzy, sore throat..........
6 Influenza171112053 Enteritis..........
7 Whooping cough25551754 Peritonitis115310
8 Diphtheria51317175255 Diseases of liver313613
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined Fever..........56 Other diseases of digestive system16186118113
10 Enteric Fever12148
11 Simple cholera..........57 Diseases of system & ductless glands..1..12
12 Diarrhœa, dysentery1541754
13 Remittent Fever
14 Hydrophobia..........58 Diseases of urinary system1716122368
15 Glanders..........
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination..........59 Diseases, generative system11226
17 Venereal affections13..26
60 Accidents of childbirth22127
18 Erysipelas....134
19 Pyemia and Septicaemial1....2
61 Diseases of locomotive system....213
20 Puerperal Fever..........
21 Other Zymotic diseases. ,22
22 Thrush..........62 Diseases of integumentary system1..113
23 Worms and other parasitic diseases..........
24 Starvation, want of breast milk..........VIOLENT DEATHS. (Accident.)
25 Alcoholism....112
26 Rheumatic Fever and rheumatism of heart..111363 Fracture and contusion722516
64 Gun shot wounds..........
27 Rheumatisml....2365 Cut, stab..........
28 Gout21..1466 Burn and scald441312
29 Rickets..1....167 Poison....112
30 Cancer81212124468 Drowning2..1..3
31 Tabes Mesenterica43751969 Suffocation411612
32 Tubercular Meningitis37431770 Otherwise....1..1
33 Phthisis51464354194
34 Scrofula, tuberculosis542814(Homicide.)
35 Other constitutn'l diseases26232628103
71 Murder and manslaughter..........
36 Premature birth5312929
37 Atelectasis..........(Suicide.)
38 Congenital malformations..........
39 Old age199774272 Gun shot wounds..........
40 Apoplexy8101468873 Cut, stab1....12
74 Poison..1....1
41 Epilepsy . .35..21075 Drowning..........
42 Convulsions681463476 Hanging....314
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system281819168177 Otherwise..........
44 Diseases of organs of special sense..1....1(Execution.) 78 Hanging..........