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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

St Pancras 1897

Annual report from the chairman of the health committee on the business of the department

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The following table shows the number of notifications of infectious diseases
in London during five years, the annual mean, and the mean annual proportion
per 1000 of population.

Table: NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.London. — metropolitan Asylums Board. — Reports of Statistical Committee.

NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

London. — metropolitan Asylums Board. — Reports of Statistical Committee.

POPULATION, From Annual Summaries of Registrar General18921893189418951896Annual MeanPer 1000 of Population per Annum
Enumerated. 4,211,743Estimated 4,306,411Estimated 4,349,166Estimated 4,392,316Estimated 4,421,9554,336,324
Small pox42328131192979225112625
Scarlet Fever27,09536,90118,44019,75725,64725,5685.89
Diphtheria778113,02610,65510,77213,36211,1192.56
Membranous Croup565668535451446533.12
Enteric Fever246536633360350631903237.74
Typhus Fever20222114617.0039
Continued Fever147205162105103144.033
Relapsing Fever742333.00069
Puerperal Fever337397253236277300.09
Cholera548621291341.0094
Erysipelas6934970060805660643669621.605
Total45,82867,48540,72141,51249,70849,05011.311

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The following table shows the weekly number of deaths from the same
diseases throughout the past year.