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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 statement44 Diseases of Organs of Special Sense336
2 Measles8510124
3 ScarletFever25231245 Diseases of the Circulatorv System45462740158
4 Typhus Fever11
5 Relapsing Fever
6 Influenza1631946 Croup
7 Whooping-cough41272347 bronchitis721943164
8 Diphtheria73642048 Pneumonia52483237169
9 Simple, Continued and Ill-defined Fever49 Pleurisy43119
50 Other Resipratory Diseases882422
10 Enteric Fever31239
11 Simple Cholera
51 Dentition123
12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery1130537
13 Remittent Fever52 Quinzy, Sore Throat
14 Hydrophobia53 Enteritis
15 Glanders54 Peritonitis11114
16 Cow-Pox and Effects of Vaccination55 Diseases of Liver441514
56 Other Diseases of Digestive System2020451499
17 Venereal Affections213
18 Erysipelas112
57 Diseases of Lymphatic System and Ductless Glands
19 Pyaemia and Septicaemia314
20 Puerperal Fever22
21 Other Zymotic Diseases
22 Thrush58 Diseases of Urinary System15144841
23 Worms and other Parasitic Diseases
59 Diseases, Generative System
24 Starvation, Want of Breast-milk
60 Accidents of Childbirth11
25 Alcoholism223310
26 Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism of the Heart31461 Diseases of Locomotive System1214
62 Diseases of Integumentary System22127
27 Rheumatism21216
28 Gout2114
29 Rickets314
VIOLENT DEATHS.
30 Cancer514141851
31 Tabes Mesenterica3216
32 Tubercular Meniningitis73541963 Accidents2216181066
33 Phthisis5746178
64 Homicide—-
34 Scrofula, Tuberculosis310111034
35 Other Constitutional Diseases2525181583
65 Suicide2114
36 Premature Birth5153866 Other Causes
37 Atelectasis
38 Congenital Malformations
39 Old Age787729