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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
Holborn 1899
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1899
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TABLE IV.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES RETURN for 52 weeks ending December, 1899.
| DATE. | 2 weeks, ending— | 7 Jan. | 21 Jan. | 4 Feb. | 18 Feb. | 4 March. | 18 March. | 1 April. | 15 April. | 29 April. | 13 May. | 27 May. | 10 June. | 24 June. | 8 July. | 22 July. | 5 August. | 19 August. | 2 Sept. | 16 Sept. | 30 Sept. | 14 October. | 30 October. | 11 Nov. | 25 Nov. | 9 Dec. | 23 Dec. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scarlatina and Scarlet Fever. | 4 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 3 | |
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Typhoid Fever and Enteric Fever. | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Erysipelas. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | ||||||||
| Typhus Fever. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Puerperal Fever. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Continned Fever. | 2 |