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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Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
Table III.
Corrected, Return of Cause of Death of Infants under One Year
in the Registration Sub-Districts during the 52 Weeks ending
December 31st, 1892.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
borough
road
London
road
Kent
Road.
I.—Specific, Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Smallpox
...
• ••
• ••
Measles
6
1
• ••
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)
...
...
• ••
Diphtheria
...
1
• ••
Whooping-Cough
9
2
• ••
Typhus Fever
...
• ••
• ••
Enteric or Typhoid Fever
...
•••
• ••
Simple Continued and Ill-defined Fever
...
• ••
• ••
Other Miasmatic Diseases
...
...
10
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera
...
• ••
• ••
Diarrhœa, Dysentery
11
2
• ••
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
2
5
4
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra
...
...
...
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas
• • •
1
• ••
Pyæmia, Septicaemia
...
...
• ••
Puerperal Fever
...
...
• ••
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush
1
• ••
...
Hydatids and other Animal Parasitic Diseases
...
...
...
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Starvation and Want of Breast Milk
...
...
...
Scurvy
• ••
...
...
Chronic Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens
• ••
...
...
IV. Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism of the Heart.
• ••
...
...
Rheumatism
• ••
...
...
Gout
...
...
...
Rickets
3
2
4
Cancer, Malignant Disease
• ••
...
10
Tabes Mesenterica
7
3
7
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus
6
7
1
Phthisis
1
1
8
Other Tubercular and Scrofulous Diseases
4
4
• • •
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis
• ••
• ••
• • •
Auæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia
• • •
• ••
• • •
Glycosuria, Diabetes, Mellitus
• • •
• ••
• • •
Otner Constitutional Diseases
• • •
• ••
• • •
Carried forward
50
29
50