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Bethnal Green 1887

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

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Table III.

CAUSE OF DEATH.AGE.Total under 5 years.Total.
0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 and upwds.
1. - Zymotic Diseases (continued).
Diphtheria1232................24..
Simple Continued Fever........................
Enteric or Typhoid Diseases..........6..2........28
Other Miasmatic Diseases..........................
2. Diarrœa, Dysentery
Simple Cholera32......1..........56
Diarrhœa, Dysentery8324......1..21....107117
3. Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever..........................
Ague..........................
4. Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Vaccination..........................
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia)..........................
5. Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis8......88
Gonorrhœa Stricture........................1
6. Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas..........1..13....17
Pyœmia septicœmia............I......4
Puerperal Fever........23............5
II. -Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases1....................33
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasites........................
III. -Dietic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk, starvation3......1......1....35
Scurvy........1...., ,........2
Chronic Alcoholism........144..........9
Deliriu,m Tremens........21............3