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Holborn 1898
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1898
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TABLE V. CASES OF SICKNESS under the care of the District Medical Officers during the 52 weeks ending 24th December, 1898.
| 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. | Eheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Delirium Tremens. | Insanity. | Syphilis. | Congenital Syphilis. | Lead Poison. | Other Diseases. | Total. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pleurisy. | Pneumonia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dr. Gabe (for 33 weeks) | 2 | 21 | I | 7 | 20 | I | 10 | I | 147 | 5 | 3 | 39 | ... | ... | ... | 5 | 3 | 273 | 536 | ||||||
| Mr. Taylor | ... | ... | 11 | ... | 5 | 12 | ... | 1 | 4 | ... | ... | 110 | 5 | 3 | 41 | ... | ... | 4 | 1 | ... | ... | 315 | 515 | ||
| Dr. Gahagan | ... | ... | 13 | ... | ... | 3 | 13 | ... | ... | 1 | 38 | ... | ... | 123 | 6 | 3 | 31 | ... | ... | 2 | 4 | ... | ... | 326 | 563 |
| Total | ... | 2 | 45 | ... | 1 | 15 | 45 | ... | ... | 3 | 52 | ... | 1 | 380 | 16 | 9 | 114 | ... | ... | 6 | 10 | ... | 1 | 914 | 1614 |
| Corresponding weeks, 1897. | ... | 3 | 20 | 3 | 6 | 45 | 42 | ... | ... | 5 | 43 | ... | ... | 456 | 11 | 4 | 110 | i | 2 | 9 | 4 | ... | ... | 808 | 1572 |
| TABLE V. CASES OF SICKNESS under the care of the District Medical Officers during the 52 weeks ending 24th December, 1898. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | Eheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Delirium Tremens. | Insanity. | Syphilis. | Congenital Syphilis. | Lead Poison. | Other Diseases. | Total. | ||
| Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pleurisy. | Pneumonia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dr. Gabe (for 33 weeks) | 2 | 21 | I | 7 | 20 | I | 10 | I | 147 | 5 | 3 | 39 | 5 | 3 | 273 | 536 | |||||||||
| Mr. Taylor | 11 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 110 | 5 | 3 | 41 | 4 | 1 | 315 | 515 | |||||||||||||
| Dr. Gahagan | 13 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 38 | 123 | 6 | 3 | 31 | 2 | 4 | 326 | 563 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 45 | 1 | 15 | 45 | 3 | 52 | 1 | 380 | 16 | 9 | 114 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 914 | 1614 | ||||||||
| Corresponding weeks, 1897. | 3 | 20 | 3 | 6 | 45 | 42 | 5 | 43 | 456 | 11 | 4 | 110 | i | 2 | 9 | 4 | 808 | 1572 | |||||||