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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
Shoreditch 1863
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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TABLE II.
Shewing the Deaths from all Causes for each Quarter of 1863 and the First Quarter of 1864.
| 1863 | 1864 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Quarter | Second Quarter | Third Quarter | Fourth Quarter | First Quarter | |
| Small-Pox | 17 | 39 | 10 | 5 | |
| Measles | 10 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 13 |
| Scarlatina | 44 | 42 | 82 | 76 | 43 |
| Whooping Cough | 50 | 42 | 14 | 13 | 48 |
| Fever | 49 | 31 | 30 | 36 | 32 |
| Erysipelas | 7 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 4 |
| Puerperal Fever | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Influenza | |||||
| Dysentery | |||||
| Diarrhœa | 5 | 11 | 108 | 9 | 1 |
| Cholera | 1 | ||||
| Diptheria | 6 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Rheumatism | 6 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
| Syphilis | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
| Privation, including want of breast milk | 2 | ... | 1 | ||
| Alcoholism | 2 | 1 | |||
| Worms, Thrush, &c. | |||||
| Dropsy | 16 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 11 |
| Cancer | 9 | 9 | 14 | 10 | 10 |
| Mortification | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Scorfula, Tabes Mesenterica and Hydrocephalus | 48 | 44 | 50 | 51 | 47 |
| Phthisis | 101 | 106 | 80 | 100 | 147 |
| Insanity | |||||
| Convulsions | 50 | 48 | 30 | 29 | 36 |
| Apoplexy | 30 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 18 |
| Brain Disease | 45 | 56 | 52 | 53 | 79 |
| Heart Disease | 25 | 17 | 18 | 25 | 38 |
| Laryngitis | 25 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 24 |
| Bronchitis | 109 | 59 | 31 | 70 | 181 |
| Pneumonia | 57 | 61 | 32 | 53 | 75 |
| Lung Diseases | 31 | 12 | 15 | 24 | 39 |
| Stomach Diseases | 11 | 12 | 13 | 8 | 9 |
| Liver Diseases | 10 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 3 |
| Bright's Disease | 3 | 1 | 8 | ||
| Kidney and Bladder Diseases | 6 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 3 |
| Ovarian Disease | 2 | 1 | ... | ... | 5 |
| Uterine Disease | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||
| Joint Disease | ... | ... | |||
| Skin Disease | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Premature Birth | 14 | 21 | 13 | 10 | 21 |
| Malformations | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | |
| Teething | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Childbirth | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Old Age | 37 | 33 | 27 | 28 | 67 |
| Atrophy, Debility | 37 | 25 | 49 | 23 | |
| Violence | 16 | 20 | 22 | 19 | 19 |
| Poison | .. | 1 | ... | 1 | |
| Drowning | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Not specified | 9 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 |
| 909 | 809 | 815 | 776 | 1055 | |
| 3309 | |||||