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Lewisham 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]

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TABLE III

Deaths registered from all cruses during the Year, 1889.

Note- The Deaths of non-Residents occuring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded

and the deaths of Residents occuring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the Districts,

are included.

Cause of Death.AGES
0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 and upwordsTotal.
CLASSES.
I. Zvmotic Dineaflen638013I26641411201
11. Parasitic Diseases........................
III. Dietic Diseases... .....................
IV. Constitutional Diseases2937132032382618751226
V. Di velopmental Disease192........2311301077
VI Local Diseases15311540252262829385316714
VII Violent Deaths1741315119831....81
VIII Not specitied or ill detined6021........1......64
Totals34124080727111512211918068181363
Class 1. ZVMOTIC DlSEASESammm
Order 1.-Miasmatic
1 Smallpoxvaccinated................ . ...........
Unvaccinate........................
No statement........................
2 Measles614....................
3 Scarlet Kever (Smarlalita.)419.............. ........
4 Tyrphus Fever..............1........
5 Whooping Cough914..................23
6 Diphtheria43124..............41
7 Simple continued fever........1..............
8 Enteric or Typhoid Fever117121..........13
9 Other Miasmatic diseases........................
Order2.-Diarrhaeal diseacs.
1 Simple Cholera............1........1
2 Diarrhæes3271. .....2..31147
Order 3.- Malarial diseases.
1 Remittent Fever........................
2 Ague........................
Order 4. - Zoogenous Discases
l Cowpox........................
2 Other Diseases........................
Order 5- Venercal diseases,
1 Syphilis8........1............
2 Gonorhæa Stricture of Urethra......1..............|
Order 6.-Septic diseases
1 Erysipelas1. ...112....1i.... .
2 Pyaemia, Septicaemia..........1..........4
3 Puerperal Fever........11............
Class 2. Parasitic diseases..............................
1 Thrush........................
Class 3. DirticDiseases.........................
1 Want of Breast Milk........................
Class 4. Constitutional Diseases..........................
1 Rhcuiuatic Fever .......111..1......4
2 Rheumatism................4..i..2
3 Gout............111......
4 Rickets37........111....3
5 Cancer..........58115..110
6 Tabes Mesenteries1851................32
7 Hydrocephalus7132............... .24
is Phthisis276103032145......22
9 Scrofula..631114
10 Diabetes.jl. .1. . s10
11 Other Diseases1. .I.. j4
Class 5. Developmental diseases... .. .. .. .....
l Premature Birth1820
2 Atelectasis1. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .10
3 Old Age. .. .. .4
Class 6. Local Diseases Order 1.-Nervous System. .. .. .. .. .. .3133011..
1 Inflammation of Brain81251. .. .11. .. .. .31
2 Apoplexy... .. .. .. .l 1 71"65
3 Insanity. .. .171712180. ...
4 Epilepsy. .. .. .. .. .. .. .
5 Convulsions2992. .23. .. .7
6 Laryngismus Stridulus31..... .. .38
7Paralysis Agitans..11"1. .. .. .. .. .4
1 Other Diseases. .1. .1... .1........3