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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health—1898.
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, 1898.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
borough
road
london
road
kent
road
I.—Specific, Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small-pox
...
...
...
Measles
...
4
6
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)
...
1
...
Diphtheria
2
1
2
Whooping-Cough
2
6
3
Typhus Fever
...
...
...
Enteric or Typhoid Fever
...
...
...
Simple Continued and Ill-defined Fever
...
...
...
Other Miasmatic Diseases
...
1
2
2.—DiarrhŒl Diseases.
Simple Cholera
...
...
...
Diarrhoea, Dysentery
19
27
27
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
...
2
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra
...
...
...
6.—Septic Diseases.
Phagedæna
...
1
Erysipelas
...
1
...
Pyemia, Septicæmia
.....
...
...
Puerperal Fever
...
...
...
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush
...
...
1
Hydatids and other Animal Parasitic Diseases
......
...
...
III.—Dietic Diseases.
Starvation and Want of Breast Milk
1
...
...
Scurvy
...
...
...
Chronic Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens
......
...
...
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism of the Heart
......
...
...
Rheumatism
...
...
...
Gout
...
...
...
Rickets
1
1
1
Cancer, Malignant Disease
...
...
...
Tabes Mesenterica
3
...
10
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus
6
4
4
Phthisis
...
...
...
Other Tubercular and Scrofulous Diseases
2
1
...
Purpura, Hemorrhagic Diathesis
...
...
...
Anemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia
...
...
...
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus
...
...
...
Other Constitutional Diseases
...
...
...
Carried forward
88
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