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Mile End 1878
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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TABLE II.
SHOWING DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES.
Mortality
from all
causes.
Fever.
Enteric Fever.
Small-pox.
Measles.
Scarlet Fever.
Cjnauehe,Maligna,
Diphtheria.
Diarrhœa.
Liarrhœa of Children
under five years.
Cholera.
Dysentery.
Whooping-cough.
Croup.
Erysipelas.
Rheumatic Fever.
Disease of Liver.
Tabes Mesenterica.
Bronchitis, Pleuritis,
and Pneumonia.
Bronchitis, &c., under
three years.
Dentition.
Scrofulous Disease.
Hydrocephalus Convulsions.
Dropsy.
Cancer.
Ththisis.
Hernia.
Uterine Diseases.
Diseases of Heart.
Apoplexy and Disease
of Brain.
Pyæmia.
Premature Birth, Debility
from Birth.
Violence, Poison, Privation
Natural Decay.
Other Diseases, chiefly
chronic.
Syphilitic Diseases.
Disease of Rectum and
Bladder.
Inquests.
Totals for Quarters.
1878.
1st Qtr.
ending
June 29
0
7
16
2
8
7
4
6
1
1
49
3
3
2
9
18
63
37
4
1
34
8
10
68
3
4
16
44
3
21
0
35
7
3
5
26
518
2nd Qtr.
ending
Sept. 28
1
4
0
1
5
4
14
90
7
0
26
3
3
0
13
36
37
26
2
5
29
3
6
57
7
3
16
41
3
47
1
29
6
2
4
22
550
3rd Qtr.
ending
Dec. 28
5
0
5
12
4
3
6
0
0
17
7
2
2
11
18
107
41
3
6
20
8
6
48
3
1
19
58
2
35
2
48
11
4
7
23
544
4th Qtr.
ending
Mar. 29
1
6
2
3
4
1
6
0
0
0
36
3
4
2
4
25
128
85
7
5
52
3
5
45
0
2
16
47
3
27
0
61
11
0
4
53
651
Totals
2
22
18
11
29
16
27
102
8
1
128
16
12
6
37
97
335
189
16
17
135
22
27
218
13
10
67
190
11
130
3
173
35
9
20
124
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