Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark]
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50 Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
APPENDIX C.
Table I.
Corrected Return of Cause of Death in the Registration Sub-Districts
during the 25 Weeks ending December 31st, 1892.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
borough
road
London
road
Kent
Road.
I.—Specific, Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small-pox
...
...
...
Measles
25
15
26
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)
3
4
6
Diphtheria
7
6
10
Whooping-Cough
19
8
16
Typhus Fever
...
...
...
Enteric or Typhoid Fever
3
...
4
Simple Continued and Ill-defined Fever
...
...
1
Influenza
4
4
6
Other Miasmatic Diseases
...
...
...
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera
...
...
...
Diarrhoea, Dysentery
17
8
22
3.—Malarial Diseases.
(e.g., Remittent Fever, Ague)
...
...
...
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and effects of Vaccination
...
...
...
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders,
and Splenic Fever
...
...
...
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis
3
5
4
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra
...
...
...
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas
2
1
...
Pyaemia, Septicaemia
...
...
...
Puerperal Fever
...
1
2
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush
1
...
...
Hydatids and other Animal Parasitic Diseases
1
...
...
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Starvation and Want of Breast Milk
...
...
...
Scurvy
...
...
...
Chronic Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens
4
4
6
IY.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism of the Heart.
3
...
...
Rheumatism
4
2
5
Gout
...
...
...
Rickets
4
3
6
Cancer, Malignant Disease
4
5
10
Tabes Mesenterica
10
4
12
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus
8
16
22
Phthisis
39
71
83
Other Tubercular and Scrofulous Diseases
13
12
16
Purpura, Hremorrhagic Diathesis
...
...
...
Anaemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia
...
...
...
Glycosuria, Diabetes, Mellitus
...
...
...
Other Constitutional Diseases
4
6
6
Carried forward
178
176
263