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Whitechapel 1899

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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T able (H).—DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS' CASES FOR 1899.

Diseases.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.Diseases.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.
All Causes1536125313051442553637 Atelectasis..........
38 Congenital malformations..........
39 Old age3..227
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1 Small-PoxVaccinated........40 Apoplexy1..1..2
Unvaccinated..........41 Epilepsy822517
No statement..........42 Convulsions......11
2 Measles8214154843 Other diseases of brain 1 and nervous system53473435169
3 Scarlet-Fever....1..1
4 Typhus..........
5 Relapsing Fever..........44 Diseases of organs of special sense1011132155
6 Influenza81571372223
7 Whooping-Cough647118
8 Diphtheria..111345 Diseases of circulatory system35471625123
9 Simple, Continued and ill-defined Fever..........
10 Enteric Fever......2246 Croup1......1
11 Simple Cholera..........
12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery____18111081615347 Bronchitis260145103286794
13 Remittent Fever..........48 Pneumonia5..4413
14 Hydrophobia..........49 Pleurisy38..1425
15 Glanders..........50 Other respiratory diseases16313197166557
16 Cow Pox and effects of Vaccination..........
51 Dentition311..5
17 Venereal affections2012342793
18 Erysipelas72631852 Quinsy, sore throat141912752
19 Pyæmia and Septicæmia..........53 Enteritis....1..1
20 Puerperal Fever......1154 Peritonitis..........
21 Other Zymotic Diseases2..5..755 Diseases of liver41229
56 Other diseases of diges-tive system797911257327
22 Thrush..........
23 Worms and other Para-sitic Diseases543l1357 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands233412
24 Starvation, want of breast-milk3815142491
58 Diseases of urinary system2229202394
25 Alcoholism2617631
26 Rheumatic Fever and rheumatism of heart..........59 Diseases of generative system33363938146
27 Rheumatism1088910111641460 Accidents of childbirth......22
28 Gout3612324
29 Rickets21....361 Diseases of locomotive system198152158144652
30 Cancer243..9
31 Tabes Mesenterica..........
32 Tubercular Meningitis..........62 Diseases of integumen-tary system53643946202
33 Phthisis3411212793
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis1..6..7
35 Other constitutnl. diseases133174263 Injury1059775122399
36 Premature birth....1..164 Other diseases143135173116567