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Shoreditch 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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TABLE XXXIII.
ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the
| Diseases. | Diseases. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AllCauses | 3526 | 38 Congenital malformations | - | |
| ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | 39 Old age | 111 | ||
| 40 Apoplexy | 5 | |||
| 1 Small Pox | Vaccinated | — | 41 Epilepsy | 22 |
| Unvaccinated | — | 42 Convulsions | 9 | |
| No Statement | — | 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 194 | |
| 2 Measles | 58 | |||
| 3 Scarlet fever | 28 | 44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 18 | |
| 4 Typhus | — | |||
| 5 Relapsing fever | -— | 45 Diseases of circulatory system | 168 | |
| 6 Influenza | 60 | |||
| 7 Whooping Cough | 25 | 46 Laryngitis | 9 | |
| 8 Diphtheria | 4 | 47 Bronchitis | 832 | |
| 9 Simple, Continued, and ill-defined fever | 9 | 48 Pneumonia | 44 | |
| 10 Enteric fever | 7 | 49 Pleurisy | 17 | |
| 11 Simple cholera | — | 50 Other respiratory diseases | 17 | |
| 12 Diarrhœa, Dysentery | 117 | 51 Dentition | 10 | |
| 13 Remittent fever | 1 | 52 Quinzy, sore throat | 33 | |
| 14 Hydrophobia | — | 53 Enteritis | 24 | |
| 15 Glanders | — | 54 Peritonitis | 8 | |
| 16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination | - | 55 Diseases of liver | 3 | |
| 17 Venereal affections | 19 | 56 Other diseases of digestive system | 193 | |
| 18 Erysipelas | 18 | |||
| 19 Pyaemia and Septicæmia | — | 57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 18 | |
| 20 Puerperal fever | — | |||
| 21 Tabes Mesenterica | 1 | 58 Diseases of urinary system | 40 | |
| 22 Tubercular Meningitis | 1 | |||
| 23 Phthisis | 147 | 59 Diseases of generative system | 38 | |
| 24 Scrofula, Tuberculosis | 12 | |||
| 25 Other Zymotic diseases | 23 | 60 Accidents of childbirth | 4 | |
| DISEASES OTHER THAN ZYMOTIC. | 61 Diseases of locomotive system | 112 | ||
| 26 Thrush | 1 | 62 Diseases of integumentary system | 74 | |
| 27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | 6 | |||
| 28 Starvation, want of breast-milk | 6 | VIOLENCE.—Accident. | ||
| 29 Alcoholism | 19 | |||
| 30 Rheumatic fever and Rheumatism of heart | 35 | 63 Fracture and contusion | 28 | |
| 64 Gun shot wounds | — | |||
| 31 Rheumatism | 276 | 65 Cut, stab | 1 | |
| 32 Gout | 50 | 66 Burn or scald | 2 | |
| 33 Rickets | 4 | 67 Poison | 11 | |
| 34 Cancer | 15 | 68 Drowning | — | |
| 35 Other constitutional diseases | 73 | 69 Suffocation | — | |
| 36 Premature birth | - | 70 Otherwise | 55 | |
| 37 Atelectasis | - | 71 Other Causes | 411 | |