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Whitechapel 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table L.— METROPOLITAN DEATHS FOR FOUR QUARTERS ENDED DEC 31 ST , 1898.

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 Causes2442718444217621930613393938 Congenit'l Malformations1349410186415
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.39 Old Age7865555466432530
40 Apoplexy5874984205872092
41 Epilepsy82889781348
1 Small-PoxVaccinated...............42 Convulsions4493804523581639
Unvaccinated...............43 Other Diseases of Brain & Nervous System11669379909644057
No statement.........11
2 Measles149310772362653071
3 Scarlet Fever182154108139583
4 Typhus „2......2444 Diseases of Organs of Special Sense67354955206
5 Relapsing Fever...............
6 Influenza857212631511283
7 Whooping cough817673431240216145 Diseases of the Circulatory System19411587150717796814
8 Diphtheria5343663605111771
9 Simple, Continued, & Ill-defined Fever2133946 Croup231161858
10 Enteric Fever1037211929158547 Bronchitis3566147488318587781
11 Simple Cholera......126413018 Pneumonia1914122995413465443
12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery1311843590473437849 Pleurisy71844185281
13 Remittent Fever...31...450 Other respiratory dis's443243197266114'J
14 Hydrophobia...............
15 Glanders...11...251 Dentition1071058464361
16 Cow-pox and Effects of Vaccination52...1852 Quinzy, SoreThroat20711185(
53 Enteritis19123115824842486
17 Venereal Affections131901168542254 Peritonitis67756572275
18 Erysipelas4340305216555 Diseases of Liver301280323344124fr
19 Pyæmia & Septicæmia20179216756 Other Diseases of Digestive System391382448367158f
20 Puerperal Fever45492565184
21 Other Zymotic dis's1617191062
57 Dis's of Lymphatic System and Ductless Glands3032213111'
22 Thrush6511527
23 Worms and other Parasitic diseases275620
58 Diseases of Urinary System609635560607241
24 Starvation, Want of Breast-milk245181764
25 Alcoholism17614916717266459 Diseases, Generative System6164717326
26 Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism of the Heart9187909936760 Accidents, Childbirth3952483817'
27 Rheumatism3420262010061 Diseases of Locomotive System5955494721
28 Gout39352835137
29 Rickets77817644278
30 Cancer99199810781015408262 Diseases of Integumentary System8384729133
31 Tabes Mesenterica1981803912311000
32 Fubercular Meningitis3023203712401233
33 Phthisis22871915173320357970VIOLENT DEATHS.
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis230251261236978
35 Other constitut'nl dis's18116117119070363 Accidents77772073575829£
64 Other than Accidental12514213411051
36 Premature birth6656197036762663
37 Atelectasis6070395922865 Other Causes59450491168226E