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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 1883
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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TABLE III. (continued).
CAUSE OF DEATH.
AGES.
Total
under
5 years.
Total.
0
to
1
1
to
5
5
to
15
15
to
25
25
to
35
35
to
45
45
to
55
55
to
65
65
to
75
75
to
85
85 and
upwards
I.—Zymotic Diseases (continued).
Diphtheria
2
9
2
..
••
..
..
••
••
••
..
11
13
Simple Continued Fever
..
..
..
..
..
..
2
..
..
..
..
..
2
Enteric or Typhoid Fever
••
1
5
11
6
1
2
..
..
..
..
1
27
Other Miasmatic Diseases
1
..
..
..
••
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
1
2. Diarrhœl Diseases.
Simple Cholera
2
2
..
..
1
..
..
1
••
..
..
4
6
Diarrhœ, Dysentery
47
25
2
..
..
1
..
2
2
2
..
72
81
3. Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
••
Ague
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
••
4. Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Vaccination
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
••
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders)
••
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
1
5. Venereal Diseases.
Syphillis
11
1
..
..
1
..
..
1
••
••
..
12
14
Gonorrhœa, Stricture
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
••
6. Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas
3
2
..
..
1
..
..
1
2
••
..
5
10
Pytemia, Septicœia
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
1
..
..
••
2
Puerperal Fever
••
••
..
1
1
..
..
••
••
••
..
..
2
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases
3
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
4
4
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasites
..
..
..
..
2
..
..
..
..
1
..
..
3
III.—Dietic Diseases
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation
5
1
..
••
..
1
..
..
1
••
..
6
8
Scurvy
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
••
Chronic Alcoholism
..
..
..
..
3
..
1
..
..
..
..
..
4
Delirium Tremens
••
••
••
••
1
1
1
••
••
••
••
••
3