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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 1896

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1896

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Table: TABLE IV. Cases of Sickness under the care of the District Medical Officers during the 52 weeks ending December, 1896.

TABLE IV. Cases of Sickness under the care of the District Medical Officers during the 52 weeks ending December, 1896.

Names of the Medical Officers.Small Pox.Chicken Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea.Continued Fever. (Typhus and Typhoid).Cholera.Erysipelas.Influenza.Puerperal Fever.Carbuncle.Acute Pulmonary Inflammation.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Dysentery.Diphtheria.Delirium Tremens.Insanity.Syphilis.Congenital Syphilis.Lead Poison.Other Diseases.All Diseases.
Bronchitis and Catarrh.Pleurisy.Pneumonia.
Dr. GabeI6I5421......15......1826440............2.........402725
Mr. Taylor292314......4.........1743565......4...8.........375686
Mr. Gahagan46913......123......9882241......13.........305498
TotalI3996648......628......45417111291...4113.........10821909
Corresponding weeks, 1895.4...56692792...469......5672021142.........184......10172092