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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 1878

[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.
3mo. to 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 upward sTotal under 5 years
CLASS I. (continued).
11 Carbuncle............................... .
12 Influenza............................. ...
13 Dysentery..........1..1........a .2
14 Diarrhœa8322761111..2....7380
15 Cholera111...., ,11....1......36
16 Ague................................
17 Remittent Fever..........1................. .1
18 Rheumatism (Acute). .# .... .13. .3. ...... .......7
19 Rheumatism (Chronic)........1..112......... .5
Order 2.-Enthetic [11]
1 Syphilis269..1..... ...1........911
2 Stricture of Urethra................................
3 Hydrophobia............................... .
4 Glanders................................
Order 3. Dietic [19]
1 Privation................................
2 "Want of Breast Milk65........................1111
3 Purpura and Scurvy............................. ., ,
4 Alcoholisma. Delirium Tremens..........12....11....... .5
b. Intemperance................12......... .3
Order 4.—Parasitic [5]
1 Thrush41, ,. ., ,. .5
2 Worms, &c. .. .. .
CLASS II.— Constitutional Diseases.
Order 1. —Diathetic [77]1368572816788510580512041166606
1 Gout... .. .#. .#41, ,. .. .« .5
2 Dropsy365. .. .. .14
3 Cancer1391612521, ,49
4 Cancrum Oris (Noma)
5 Mortification511. j2. .69