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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

Bethnal Green 1877

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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Table: TABLE III. (continued).

TABLE III. (continued).

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 3 months.ages.Total.
3 into 1 yr.1 to 22 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 to 9595 and upwards.Total under 5 years
CLASS I. (continued).
11 Carbuncle..........1..1....2........4
12 Influenza................................
13 Dysentery..........11................2
14 Diarrhœa11521771......1132....8795
15 Cholera..............331..........7
16 Ague................................
17 Remittent Fever................................
18 Rheumatism..........1....1..1........3
19 Other Zymotic Diseases....................2........2
Order 2.—Enthetic.
1 Syphilis741......................1212
2 Stricture of Urethra................................
3 Hydrophobia..............................
4 Glanders................................
Order 3.—Dietic.
1 Privation..........1..2............3
2 Want of Breast Milk5..........................55
3 Purpura and Scurvy........1..........1........2
4 Alcoholisma. Delirium Tremens..........21....2..........5
b. Intemperance............1....1..........2
Order 4.—Parasitic.
i Thrush231......................66
2 Worms, &c.................................
CLASS II.—Constitutional Diseases. Order 1.—Diathetic.
1 Gout................113........5
2 Dropsy..........1....2211......7
3 Cancer............42815961....45
4 Cancrum Oris (Noma)................................
5 Mortification4................1..1....46