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Whitechapel 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table L.— METROPOLITAN DEATHS FOR FOUR QUARTERS ENDED 1897.

Cleans of Death.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.Causes or Death.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4 th Quarter.Total.
All Causes205041726121562216198094640 Apoplexy6215484565872212
41 Epilepsy86798076321
42 Convulsions4353684654151683
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.43 Other Diseases of Brain and Nervous System10668709389563830
1 Small-Pox Vaccinated41....5
1 Small-Pox Unvaccinated3......3
1 Small-Pox No statement512..844 Diseases of Organs of Special Sense
2 Measles1622983011164192552534458207
3 Scarlet Fever160151215248780
4 Typhus ,,......1145 Diseases of the Circulatorv Svstem20191711145317846967
5 Relapsing Fever..1....12
6 Influenza21725656142671
7 Whooping cough544471373453184146 Croup281981772
7Diphtheria641427488705226147 Bronchitis2436138374528457409
9 Simple, Continued & Ill-defined Fever3311848 Pneumonia1436108571318195053
49 Pleurisy70666967272
10 Enteric Fever1248214323558150 Other respiratory dis's.3942291953651183
11 Simple Cholera141073115
12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery1791953512219410551 Dentition1377511682410
13 Remittent Fever..........52 Quinzy, Sore Throat3015151878
14 Hydrophobia......1153 Enteritis22820015542272209
15 Glanders....11254 Peritonitis74587358263
16 Cow-Pox and Effects of Vaccination1151855 Diseases of Liver3243063303191279
56 Other Diseases of Digestive Svstem3583794554071599
17 Venereal Affections11310014497454
18 Erysipelas .45365152184
19 Pyæmia & Septicemia281925279957 Diseases of Lymphatic system and Ductless glands2322312298
20 Puerperal Fever67444262215
21 Other Zymotic diseases2622151881
22 Thrash961323058 Diseases of Urinary system6225875916242424
23 Worms and other Parasitic diseases638..17
24 Starvation, Want of Breast-milk181221116259 Diseases, Generative system84688472308
25 Alcoholism14515916816063260 Accidents of Childbirth52536460229
26 Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism of the Heart100828410236861 Diseases of Locomotive svstem75714850244
27 Rheumatism2626123195
28 Gout4032253713462 Diseases of Integumentary system84608591320
29 Rickets59548166260
30 Cancer97397810029553908
31 Tabes Mesenterica199201394195989VIOLENT DEATHS.
32 Tubercular Meningitis3283313112391209
33 Phthisis2085184818J22086786163 Accidents7487507087532959
34 Scrof00ula, Tuberculosis25319925621692464 Other than Accidental12215014098510
35 Other constitut'nl dis's175208176177736
36 Premature Birth674640703661267865 Other Causes5994798395842501
37 Atelectasis6643576823466 Inquests20241815172319517513
38 Congntl. Malformatns1108510310640467 Uncertified Causes of Deaths13078126142476
39 Old Age7055595266622412