[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Chadderton U.D.C.

  • Chadderton (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Chadderton U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following table gives the causes of deaths at all ages :— Infectious diseases Diarrhoea Phthisis Other Scrofulous diseases ... Cancer Syphilis Rheumatism Respiratory diseases Heart disease Diseases of Nervous System ,, Digestive „ „ Urinary „ Parturition All other diseases and old age Deaths by violence 50 9 29 12 10 2 3 lOI 38 48 18 7 7 95 13 Total 442 The deaths from the seven principal zymotics were as follows for the last five years :— 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 Smallpox 6 17 0 3 0 Scarlet Fever 3 I I 2 I 11 Diphtheria 3 2 2 6 2 Typhoid Fever 2 2 5 I 0 Measles 8 9 19 6 I T Whooping Cough 15 8 14 12 19 Diarrhoea 12 16 4 13 9 Total ... 49 65 46 42 52 Zymotic Death Rate 2’2 2'8 1-9 17 2’I Note.—One death from smallpox in Cinder Hill Hospital is not included, as it was not of a native of Chadderton.