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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
Limehouse 1862
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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APPENDIX.
Table I.
CAUSES OP DEATH.
Limehouse acres 249.
Population(1861) corrected
27,453
Ratcliff, acres 113.
Population corrected 17,123
Shadwell, acres 68
Population corrected 8038.
Wapping acres 41.
Population 3987.
Limehouse District, acres 471.
Total Population 56,601.
1. Zymotic
229
120
40
19
408
2. Diathetic
18
22
5
9
54
3. Tubercular
100
87
33
20
240
4. Nervous System
51
42
11
14
118
5. Organs of Circulation
18
8
1
10
37
6. Respiratory Organs
109
70
37
26
242
7. Digestive Organs
46
15
7
7
75
8. Urinary Organs, &c
9
3
• • •
• • •
14
9. Generative Organs, &c
6
• • •
2
1
9
10. Locomotive Organs, &c
2
• • •
• • •
4
6
11. Integumentary System
...
• • •
1
• • •
1
12. Malformations
5
• • •
1
• • •
6
13. Premature Birth, and Debility
24
11
5
9
49
14. Old Age
22
29
2
31
84
15. Violent and Sudden
46
32
44
18
140
Total Deaths
685
440
190
168
1483