Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the half-year ending December, 1895
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parish. | population. | area in acres. | inhabited houses. | ||
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1881. | 1891. | 1881. | 1891. |
Cause of Death. | Diminution in 1895. | Excess in 1895. |
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Last half-year. | 1895. |
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Up to 10 years of Age. | Above 10 years of Age. |
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Tenements with | Number of Tenements. | Percentage of all Tenements. | Total Occupants. | Percentage of Population in each group of Tenements. | Average Occupants per room. | Overcrowding. | ||
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Number of one to four roomed Tenements with more than two Occupants per room. | Number of Occupiers of such Tenements. | Percentage of Populationin such Tenements. | ||||||
1 room | 2,593 | 32-2 | 6,770 | 20.2 | 2.61 | 1,1.25 | 4,501 | 13.44 |
2 rooms | 2,526 | 314 | 9,915 | 29.6 | 1.96 | 906 | 5,600 | 16.72 |
3 rooms | 1,246 | 15 5 | 5,782 | 17.3 | 1.55 | 272 | 2,197 | 6.56 |
4 rooms | 476 | 5.9 | 2,337 | 7.0 | 1.23 | 45 | 454 | 1.36 |
6,841 | 85.0 | 24,804 | 74.1 | 2,348 | 12,752 | 38.08 |
Sanitary Areas. | Estimated Population. Middle of 1895. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1000 Living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases./ | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined FevĀ«r. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under One Year of Age to 1000 Births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | PrincipalZymoticDiseases. |
Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever and Scarlatina. | Diphtheriaand Membranous Croup. | Entericand Typhoid Fever. | Erysipelas. | Typhus Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Totals. |
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DATE. | 2 weeks, 13 July. | 2 weeks, 27 July. | 2 weeks, 10 Aug. | 2 weeks, 24 Aug. | 2 weeks, 7 Sept. | 2 weeks, 21 Sept. | 2 weeks, 5 Oct. | 2 weeks, 19 Oct. | 2 weeks, 2 Not. | 2 weeks, 16 Nov. | 2 weeks, 30 Nov. | 2 weeks, 14 Dec. | 2 weeks, 28 Dec. | Total, 1895. | Total, 1894. |
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Names of the Medical Officers. | Small Fox. | Chicken Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping 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. | ||
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Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pleurisy. | Pneumonia. |
1895. MONTHS. | Mean Reading of the Barometer. | Temperature of the Air. | Rain. | ||||||||
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Highest by Day. | Lowestby Night. | Rangein Month. | Mean ofall Highest. | Mean ofall Lowest. | Mean Daily Range. | Mean forthe Month. | Departure from Average of 124 Years, 1771-1894. | Number of Days it Fell. | AmountCollected. |