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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health—1898.
Table I.
Corrected Return of Cause of Death in the Registration Sub-Districts
during the 52 Weeks ending December 31st, 1898.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Borough
road
London
road
Kent
Road
I.—Specific, Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small-pox
...
...
...
Measles
5
9
29
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)
8
2
10
Diphtheria
12
12
12
Whooping-Cough
9
18
7
Typhus Fever
...
...
...
Enteric or Typhoid Fever
3
2
4
Simple Continued and Ill-defined Fever
...
...
...
Other Miasmatic Diseases
1
3
6
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera
...
...
1
Diarrhoea, Dysentery
27
33
39
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
4
...
2
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra
...
...
...
6.—Septic Diseases.
Phagedæna
...
...
1
Erysipelas
1
1
...
Pyæmia, Septicæmia
...
...
...
Puerperal Fever
1
2
3
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush
...
...
1
Hydatids and other Animal Parasitic Diseases
...
...
1
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Starvation and Want of Breast Milk
1
...
...
Scurvy
...
...
...
Chronic Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens
2
...
2
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism of the Heart
2
2
2
Rheumatism
...
...
...
Gout
...
1
...
Rickets
2
5
1
Cancer, Malignant Disease
14
20
18
Tabes Mesenterica
6
1
14
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus
9
10
8
Phthisis
70
70
52
Other Tubercular and Scrofulous Diseases
8
8
4
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis
...
...
...
Anæma, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia
2
2
...
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus
...
...
1
Other Constitutional Diseases
...
1
...
Carried forward
187
202
218