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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

Clerkenwell 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]

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III. Dietetic Diseases...........................Accidents of Childbirth.........11......22
Starvation, want of Breast Milk392...............41Disease of Locomotive System............11...22
Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens.....................-
IV. Constitutional Dim41Diseases of Integ. System.....................-
Rheumatic Fever, Rheu matism of Heart...123.........6VII. Violence............................
Rheumatism......13...1...5Accident41...123...11
Gout...............1...1By Railways....................1130
Rickets24...............6By Vehicles or Horses..................• • •—
Cancer,,,......196...16In Ships, &c. (not
Tabes Mesenterica43......1......8Drowning).....................—
Tubercular Meningitis9232...2...36In Building operations .......................—
Phthisis141045297 ...96In Conflagrations.....................-
Scrofula. Tuberculosis24243217By Burns, Scalds, Explosions...1...............1
Other Constitutional Dis.1..........1...2
193By Drowning..................
V. Develphntl. Dis.By Suffocation in be19..................19
Premature Birth79..................79By Poisons or Poisonous Vapours............1......1
Atelectasis3..................3
Con. Malformations4..................4Other or not stated canses1............1...2
Old Age...............141529115
VI. Local Diseasis.Violence other than accidental.
Apoplexy............49...13
Epilepsy......]......2...3Homicide1................1
Convulsions289...............37Suicide.........351...9
Other Diseases of Brain,Execution........................
&c.4...137812444
77—536
589589 1125