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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 1895

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

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III. Dietetic Diseases..Accidents of Childbirth5......5.........10
Starvation, want of Breast Milk56..................5610
Disease of Locomotive System............i......1
Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens.........21......3
1
59Diseases of Integ. System21......21...6
IV. Constitutional Dis....
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart.....................-6
VII. VIOLENCE.
Rheumatism.........221...5Accident13.....41...9
Gout............12...3By Railways....................—
Rickets11...............2By Vehicles or Horses...1...............1
Cancer.........288...18In Ships, &c. (not Drowning).....................-
Tabes Mesenterica127...............19
Tubercular Meningitis1413...41......32In Building operations..................—
Phthisis13...32311..68In Conflagrations.....................—
Scrofula. Tuberculosis521...3......11By Burns, Scalds, Explosions2..................2
Other Constitutional Dis.3..................3
161By Drowning...1..............1
V. Develpmntl. Dis.By Suffocation in bed23......1.........24
Premature Birth47• ••...............47By Poisons or Poisonous Vapours.....................-
Atelectasis3..................3
Con. Malformations6• ••...............6Other or not stated causes......1............1
Old Age...............141630
86
VI. Local Diseases.Violence other than accidental.
Apoplexy.........1310...14
Epilepsy.........1...1...2Homicide..................-
Convulsions2191............31Suicide.........42......6
Other Diseases of Brain, &c.221377...22Execution.....................-
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