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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
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 | 2263 |