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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
Hanover Square 1869
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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Table II.
PARISH OF ST. GEORGE, HANOVER SQUARE.
Hanover, May Fair, and Belgrave Sub-District's.
| Diseases. | Institutions. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Out-Patient Paupers | Hospitals, Dispensaries, Infirmaries, and Out-Patient Paupers | Total | |||||||
| St. George's Hospital | Royal Pimlico Dispensary | St. Paul & St. Barnabas' Dispensary | Belgrave Hospital | In-Wards | St. George's Dispensary | ||||
| Infirmary, Monnt Street | Out-Patient Paupers | ||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
| Small-pox | 1 | 2 | — | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | — | 8 |
| Chicken-pox | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| Measles | 8 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 18 | 70 |
| Scarlatina | 3 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 57 |
| Whooping-cough | 2 | — | 7 | — | 9 | — | 2 | 36 | 56 |
| Croup | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 |
| Diarrhoea | 25 | 3 | 33 | 61 | 11 | 1 | 17 | 44 | 195 |
| Dysentery | — | — | — | — | — | —_ | — | — | — |
| Cholera | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Ague | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Continued Fever | 4 | 8 | 13 | — | 5 | 1 | 2 | — | 33 |
| Rheumatic Fever | 2 | 18 | 18 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 39 |
| Erysipelas | 2 | 8 | 1 | 3 | — | 1 | — | — | 15 |
| Delirium Tremens | 1 | 6 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 8 | |
| Insanity | 6 | — | — | — | — | 17 | 1 | — | 24 |
| Bronchitis & Catarrh | 81 | 16 | 138 | 162 | 36 | 22 | 41 | 139 | 635 |
| Diphtheritis | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | 2 |
| Pleurisy | 5 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 8 |
| Pneumonia | — | 23 | — | — | 7 | 2 | _ | _ | 32 |
| Pyaemia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Carbuncle | 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ | — | _ | 1 | |
| All other diseases | 381 | 5237 | 1334 | 790 | 345 | 197 | 133 | 659 | 9076 |
| Total | 525 | 53471571 | 1035 | 434 | 246 | 211 | 905 | 10274 | |