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Stepney 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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T ABLE M.—WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT DEATHS FOR 1900.

Causes of Death.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.total.causes of death.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter3rd Quarter.4th Quartertotal.
All Causes459403364319*54540 Apoplexy1078732
41 Epilepsy12115
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
42 Convulsions11198947
43 Other Diseases of Brain and Nervous System2121111568
1 Small- PoxVaccinated—————
Unvaccinated———
No statement—————44 Diseases of Organs of Special Sense—3—36
2 Measles8510124
3 ScarletFever25231245 Diseases of the Circulatorv System45462740158
4 Typhus Fever—1——1
5 Relapsing Fever—————
6 Influenza163——1946 Croup—————
7 Whooping-cough4127—2347 bronchitis721943164
8 Diphtheria73642048 Pneumonia52483237169
9 Simple, Continued and Ill-defined Fever—————49 Pleurisy43119
50 Other Resipratory Diseases882422
10 Enteric Fever31239
11 Simple Cholera—————
51 Dentition12——3
12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery1130537
13 Remittent Fever—————52 Quinzy, Sore Throat——
14 Hydrophobia—————53 Enteritis————
15 Glanders—————54 Peritonitis11114
16 Cow-Pox and Effects of Vaccination—————55 Diseases of Liver441514
56 Other Diseases of Digestive System2020451499
17 Venereal Affections2—1—3
18 Erysipelas——112
57 Diseases of Lymphatic System and Ductless Glands—————
19 Pyaemia and Septicaemia3—1—4
20 Puerperal Fever———22
21 Other Zymotic Diseases—————
22 Thrush—————58 Diseases of Urinary System15144841
23 Worms and other Parasitic Diseases—————
59 Diseases, Generative System—————
24 Starvation, Want of Breast-milk—————
60 Accidents of Childbirth—1——1
25 Alcoholism223310
26 Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism of the Heart—3—1461 Diseases of Locomotive System12—14
62 Diseases of Integumentary System22127
27 Rheumatism21216
28 Gout21—14
29 Rickets31——4
VIOLENT DEATHS.
30 Cancer514141851
31 Tabes Mesenterica3—216
32 Tubercular Meniningitis73541963 Accidents2216181066
33 Phthisis5746178
64 Homicide—————-
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis310111034
35 Other Constitutional Diseases2525181583
65 Suicide211—4
36 Premature Birth5—15—3866 Other Causes—————
37 Atelectasis—————
38 Congenital Malformations—————
39 Old Age787729