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Southwark 1919

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

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Table: TABLE 9.Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Deathat all Ages during 1919.

TABLE 9.

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

at all Ages during 1919.

Causes of Death.AGES.All Ages
0-1-2-510-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-MF.
Small Pox................................................
(a) Vaccinated................................................
(b) Unvaccinated...................................................
(c) No statement................................................
Measles4105.................................109
Scarlet Fever......13.................................4
Typhus Fever...................................................
Epidemic Influenza458...27103119231542...8165
Whooping Cough3...61..............................55
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup4215174...........................1230
Enteric Fever............2.........1...............21
Asiatic Cholera................................................
Diarrhæa, Dysentery505...2.........1...112......3032
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis2511....................................1917
Epidemic Cerebro - Spinal Fever3...11..............................23
Polio Myelitia......1....................................1
Chicken Pox1.......................................1...
Rotheln................................................
Parotitis...........................1............1...
Vincent's Angina................................................
Groitre............1..............................1
Trench Fever................................................
Encephalitis Lethargica1.........1............1............12
Hvdrorphobia................................................
Glanders, Farcy................................................
Tetanus................................................
Anthrax, Splenic Fever................................................
Cowpox, Accidents of Vaccination................................................
Syphilis81......1.........2...2.........87
Gonorrhæa................................................
Phagædena................................................
Erysipelas2.........1............2121...54
Pyaemia, Septicaemia......1............1...1111...42
Puerperal Fever.....................33..................6
Infective Endocarditis.........1.........11......1......13
Carbuncle...........................2...............2
Boils................................................
Cellulitis.....................1......11......12
Mastoiditis......1...21.........1............41
Tonsillitis.........1...............1............11
Empyema of Antrum..................1........................1
Malarial Fever................................................
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of Heart.........1121212321...511