London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
East Ham 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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| Pneumonia | 10 |
| Heart Diseases | 7 |
| Convulsions | 6 |
| Suicides | 6 |
| Apoplexy | 5 |
| Acute Peritonitis | 4 |
| Shock | 3 |
| Diarrhœa | 3 |
| Bronchitis | 3 |
| *Murder | 3 |
| Want of proper expansion of lungs at birth | 2 |
| Tetanus | 2 |
| Exhaustion | 2 |
| Spasm of the Glottis | 1 |
| Croup | 1 |
| Misadventure | 1 |
| Paralysis | 1 |
| Septic Poisoning | 1 |
| Rupture of Blood Vessel on Brain | 1 |
| Wasting | 1 |
| Concussion of Brain | 1 |
| Want of Vitality | 1 |
| HÅ“morrhage | 1 |
| Found Dead | 1 |
| Alcoholism | 1 |
| Cancer | 1 |
| Want of Proper Attention at Birth | 1 |
| Pleurisy | 1 |
| Acute Intussusception of Bowel | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 1 |
| Inanition | 1 |
| Opium Poisoning | 1 |
| Drowning | 1 |
| Total | 115 |
*Two of these were Children found in railway carriages at the terminus,
and the other a Lascar seaman murdered by another Lascar on board a
ship at the Royal Albert Dock.
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