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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 1879

[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.
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 upwards.Total under 5years.Total.
CLASS I. (continued).
11 Carbuncle................................
12 Influenza................................
13 Dysentery..1........................11
14 Diarrhœa7351441....11221....6068
15 Cholera....1............1........12
16 Ague................................
17 Remittent Fever................................
18 RheumatismChronic............1................1
Acute..........212..............5
19 Other Zymotic Diseases................................
Order 2. —Enthetic[16]....
1 Syphilis84111..................1415
2 Stricture of Urethra................................
3 Hydrophobia................................
4 Glanders................................
Order 3.—Dietic [19]
1 Privation................1122......6
2 Want of Breast Milk31........................44
4 Alcoholism3.Purpura and Scurvy................................
a. Delirium Tremens..............1..1..........2
b. Intemperance............124..........7
Order 4. Prasitic[2]
1 Thrush2..........................22
2 Worms, &c...............................&
CLASS II.—Constitutional Diseases.....
Order 1.—Diathetic [731]238365372067879059421382..208596
1 Gout..................31........4
2 Dropsy....11..1..2..11......27
3 Cancer............111917852....53
4 Cancrum Oris (Noma)......1....1........1......2
5 Mortification2................112....26
6 Pyæmia