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Southwark 1918

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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TABLE 9.

Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death

at all Ages during 1918.

Causes of Death.AGES.All
0-1-510-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-M.F.
Small Pox.............................................
(a) Vaccinated.............................................
(b) Unvaccinated.............................................
(c) No statement......................................................
Measles261145..............................7669
Scarlet Fever...85............1............68
Typhus Fever.............................................
Epidemic Influenza155338186012764654947133254335
Whooping Cough39872............1..................587 1
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup...22991...........................229
Enteric Fever.....................1........................1
Asiatic Cholera..........................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery204............2...2351...1918
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis1612...• • •............1...1......1515
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Fever22.................................22
Polio Myelitis.............................................
Chicken Pox.............................................
Rotheln.............................................
Parotitis.............................................
Vincent's Angina.............................................
Goitre...................................................
Trench Fever.............................................
Hydrophobia.............................................
Glanders, Farcy.............................................
Tetanus.............................................
Anthrax, Splenic Fever.............................................
Cowpox, Accidents of Vaccination.............................................
Svphilis202............1...11.........1213
Gonorrhæa.............................................
Phagædena.............................................
Erysipelas31..................1221...55
Pysemia, Septicæmia11.....................1.........12
Puerperal Fever..................12..................4
Infective Endocarditis..................3..................12
Carbuncle.......... . .............1............1...
Boils.......................................
Cellulitis1....................................1...
Mastoiditis.........11...................... . .11
Tonsillitis......1..............................1...
Malarial Fever.............................................
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart......1............. . ....132...34
Tuberculosis, total:.............................................
Tubercular Disease of Brain or Meninges, Acute Hydrocephalus318541111......1......1520
Laryngeal & Pulmonary Phthisis397123326567688462731237150
Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Disease of Intestine32211...............1......55
General Tuberculosis, Tubercular Disease of undefined position14...22...2...32......106
Other Forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula.........11............2.........13