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Whitechapel 1899

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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T ABLE (M).— WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1899.

Causes of Death.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4 th Quarter.Total.Causes of Death.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4 th Quarter.Total.
All causes436355418435164440 Apoplexy12610836
41 Epilepsy131..5
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.42 Convulsions5341022
43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system1918142273
1 Small-PoxVaccinated......1*1
Unvaccinated..........
44 Diseases of organs of special sense1..214
No statement..........
2 Measles1112101649
3 Scarlet Fever1....12
45 Diseases of the circula-tory system40392855162
4 Typhus..........
5 Relapsing Fever..........
6 Influenza75..113
46 Croup11....2
7 Whooping cough766221
8 Diphtheria745112747 Bronchitis73362056185
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined Fever..........
48 Pneumonia49403461184
49 Pleurisy23..27
10 Enteric Fever226515
50 Other respiratory diseases442919
11 Simple cholera..........
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery..142144
51 Dentition221l6
13 Remittent Fever..........
14 Hydrophobia..........
52 Quinsy, sore throat..........
15 Glanders..........
53 Enteritis..........
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination..........
54 Peritonitis1..2..3
55 Diseases of liver853925
17 Venereal affections32....5
56 Other diseases of diges-tive system28297923159
18 Erysipelas..1214
19 Pyæmia and Septicaemia..........
20 Puerperal Fever..1..12
57 Diseases of lymphatic system & ductless glands..........
21 Other Zymotic diseases..21..3
22 Thrush..........
58 Diseases of urinary system1789943
23 Worms and other para-sitic diseases..........
59 Diseases, generative sys-tem1..12
24 Starvation, want of breast milk......11
60 Accidents of childbirth..2215
25 Alcoholism4..3310
61 Diseases of locomotive system2..114
26 Rheumatic Fever and rheumatism of heart2....46
27 Rheumatism1......162 Diseases of integumen-tary system....112
28 Gout..........
29 Rickets..14..5
30 Cancer711151346
VIOLENT DEATHS.
31 Tabes Mesenterica484420
32 Tubercular Meningitis726217
33 Phthisis4346354617063 Accident1812182068
34 Scrofula, tuberculosis5102118
35 Other constitutn'l diseases141527157164 Homicide..........
36 Premature birth66862665 Suicide42....6
37 Atelectasis1......1
38 Congenital malformations..........66 Other Causes..........
39 Old age167101144
* Non-resident. Vaccinated in infancy.