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 Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health, for the first Quarter, 1858. 5
The amount of Rain was much less than the Average of the Quarter for many
years, which, according to Howard, is 5.092; in the corresponding Quarter last
year 3.62.
Meteorology from Dr. Thomson's reports taken at St. Thomas's Hospital.
TABLE 3.—
Week | DEATHS, from local weekly returns | Barometer corrected Mean | Thermometer (Averages) | Dew Point. Mean. | Wind | Rain in inches | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total Zymotic Disease | Diarrhœa | Chest Diseases | Total Mortality | Average of the weeks for 10 years | of Highest | of Lowest | ||||||
Phthisis | All other | |||||||||||
1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 23 | 24.9 | 30.269 | 41.2 | 33.8 | 31.6 | s.w. | 0.00 |
2 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 29 | 31.8 | 30.350 | 47.6 | 39.0 | 38.9 | s.w. | 0.14 |
3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 32 | 32.1 | 30.364 | 43.3 | 37.1 | 32.8 | Westerly | 0.01 |
4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 22 | 27.9 | 30.235 | 43.5 | 33.7 | 31.1 | Variable | 0.22 |
5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 21 | 31.0 | 29.897 | 46.9 | 37.1 | 36.5 | S.W. | 1.02 |
6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 27.3 | 30.167 | 40.3 | 33.7 | 33.1 | Easterly | 0.36 |
7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 26 | 36.9 | 30.009 | 40.6 | 34.3 | 30.4 | N.E. | 1.06 |
8 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 34 | 24.7 | 29.974 | 39.6 | 31.6 | 25.8 | Easterly | 0.00 |
9 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 20 | 29.1 | 29.606 | 37.2 | 30.5 | 24.5 | N.E. | 0.21 |
10 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 32 | 29.8 | 29.678 | 41.3 | 31.8 | 28.7 | N.W. | 0.40 |
11 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 29.7 | 30.142 | 54.6 | 43.8 | 39.3 | Westerly | 0.05 |
12 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 27.7 | 30.364 | 56.8 | 41.1 | 39.7 | Changeable | 0.00 |
13 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 31 | 26.5 | 29.752 | 56.1 | 42.7 | 41.2 | Variable | 0.27 |
56 | 2 | 43 | 85 | 338 | 379.4 | 30.062 | 45.3 | 36.1 | 33.3 | 3.74 | ||
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