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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 1893

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

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III. Dietetic DiseasesAccidents of Childbirth...........1.........113 30
Starvation, want of Breast Milk771......11...80Disease of Locomotive System...............2...22
Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens............1......1
81Diseases of Integ. System...11...1......3
IV. Constitutional Dis.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheu-matism of Heart......12.........3VII. Violence.
Rheumatism.........21......3Accident.....................—
Gout...12...2......5By Railways............1......1
Rickets14...............5By Vehicles or Horses.....................—
Cancer............149124In Ships, &c. (not Drowning).....................-
Tabes Mesenterica112...............13
Tubercular Meningitis17102...2......31In Building operations.....................—
Phthisis23346355...94In Conflagrations.....................—
Scrofula, Tuberculosis43...13......11By Burns, Scalds, Ex...1............1
Other Constitutional Dis.1..................1190plosions
By Drowning.....................—
V. Develpmentl. Dis.By Suffocation in bed18..................18
Premature Birth36..................36By Poisons or Poisonous Vapours.........1.........1
Atelectasis3..................3
Con. Malformations8..................8Other or not stated causes3......1.........4
Old Age...............24204491
VI. Local Diseases.Violence other than accidental.
Apoplexy.........498324
Epilepsy............3......4Homicide...1...............1
Convulsions306...............36Suicide......1...21...4
Other Diseases of Brain, &c.......2351322589Execution.....................-
1183