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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Stepney 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: Table H.—DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS' CASES FOR 1900.

Table H.—DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS' CASES FOR 1900.

Diseases.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.Diseases.1st Quar.2nd Quar.3rd Quar.4th Quar.Total.
All Causes1591101010251176480240 Apoplexy1...1...2
41 Epilepsy548320
42 Convulsions...1...12
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system39544948190
1 Small PoxVaccinated...............
Unvaccinat'd...............44 Diseases of organs of special sense912171452
No statement...............
2 Measles1511101
3 Scarlet fever......2...2
4 Typhus...............45 Diseases of circulatory system2115192782
5 Relapsing fever...............
6 Influenza10125519150
7 Whooping cough82852346 Croup...............
8 Diphtheria......123
9 Simple, continued and ill-defined fever...............
47 Bronchitis3108488130612
48 Pneumonia873422
10 Enteric fever...1......1
49 Pleurisy11341129
11 Simple cholera...............
50 Other respiratory diseases21713674146573
12 Diarrhoea, dysentery1212621096
13 Remittent fever...............
51 Dentition...1......1
14 Hydrophobia...............
15 Glanders...............52 Quinzy, sore throat137102151
16 Cow pox and effe&s of vaccination...............53 Enteritis......4...4
54 Peritonitis...............
17 Venereal affections433715...1955 Diseases of liver333211
18 Erysipelas45782456 Other diseases of digestive system68554573241
19 Pyaemia and septicaemia...............
20 Puerperal fever...............
21 Other zymotic diseases......2...257 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands753722
22 Thrush...............
23 Worms and other parasitic diseases1...1...2
58 Diseases of urinarysystem2418182383
24 Starvation, want of breast-milk27134176l
59 Diseases of generative system45353247159
25 Alcoholism18171339
26 Rheumatic fever and rheumatism of heart...1124
60 Accidents of childbirth...112
27 Rheumatism124627483343
28 Gout8124226
29 Rickets11......261 Diseases of locomotive system64113108174559
30 Cancer2...114
31 Tabes mesenterica......1...1
32 Tubercular meningitis...............
62 Diseases of integumentary system82515378264
33 Phthisis2418121872
^4 Scrofula, tuberculosis...............
35 Other constitutnl.diseases431003110
36 Premature birth...............63 Injury971084998352
37 Atelectasis...............
38 Congenital malformations...............
39 Old age1312764 Other Diseases918310958341