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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 V
CASES OF SICKNESS under the care of the District Medical Officers during the 52 weeks ending 30th December, 1899.
| Names of the Medical Officers. | Small Pox. | Chicken Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Cholera. | Continued Fever. (Typhus and Typhoid). | Erysipelas. | Influenza. | Puerperal Fever. | Carbuncle. | Acute Pulmonary Inflammation. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Delirium Tremens. | Insanity. | Syphilis. | Congenital Syphilis. | Lead Poison. | Other Diseases. | Total. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pleurisy. | Pneumonia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dr. Taylor | ... | ... | 4 | 4 | ... | 6 | 21 | ... | 2 | 2 | 7 | ... | ... | 94 | 4 | 2 | 46 | ... | ... | 5 | ... | ... | ... | 363 | 560 |
| Dr. Gahagan | ... | 1 | 10 | 1 | ... | 24 | 54 | ... | ... | 2 | 107 | ... | ... | 163 | 13 | 2 | 49 | ... | ... | 2 | 3 | ... | ... | 575 | 1007 |
| Total | ... | 1 | 14 | 5 | ... | 30 | 75 | ... | 2 | 4 | 114 | ... | 1 | 257 | 37 | 4 | 95 | ... | ... | 7 | 3 | ... | ... | 938 | 1567 |
| Corresponding weeks, 1898. | ... | 2 | 45 | ... | 1 | 15 | 45 | ... | ... | 3 | 52 | ... | 1 | 380 | 16 | 9 | 114 | ... | ... | 6 | 10 | ... | 1 | 914 | 1614 |