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
West Ham 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Deaths from Various Causes at different Age Periods.
| All Ages. | 0-1 | 1-5 | 5-20 | 20-40 | 40-60 | 60-80 | 80 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | Vaccinated | _ | |||||||
| Unvaccinated | |||||||||
| No Statement | |||||||||
| Measles | 148 | 35 | 101 | 11 | 1 | ||||
| Scarlet Fever | 15 | 2 | 10 | 3 | |||||
| Typhus | |||||||||
| Relapsing Fever | |||||||||
| Influenza | 78 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 25 | 27 | 1 | |
| Whooping Cough | 178 | 77 | 96 | 5 | |||||
| Diphtheria | 163 | 4 | 112 | 46 | 1 | ||||
| Simple Continued Fever | |||||||||
| Enteric Fever | 69 | - | — | 17 | 35 | 16 | 1 | ||
| Cholera and Choleraic Diarrhœa | 12 | 10 | 2 | ||||||
| Diarrhœa, Dysentery | 328 | 255 | 52 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 9 | ||
| Remittent Fever | 1 | — | — | 1 | |||||
| Hydrophobia | |||||||||
| Glanders | |||||||||
| Cow pox and effects of Vaccination | |||||||||
| Venereal Affections | 24 | 21 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | |||
| Erysipelas | 11 | 4 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
| Pyaemia and Septicæmia | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Puerperal Fever | 9 | — | — | — | 9 | ||||
| Other Zymotic Diseases | 6 | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Thrush | |||||||||
| Worms and other Parasitic Diseases | |||||||||
| Starvation, want of Breast Milk | 30 | 30 | |||||||
| Alcoholism | 37 | - | - | 1 | 13 | 19 | 4 | ||
| Rheumatic Fever | 9 | - | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Rheumatism | 13 | — | — | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | ||
| Gout | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||