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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-Districts.
| 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 | 7 | 7 | 8 | ||
| Small-pox | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 3 |
| Chicken-pox | 3 | — | — | — | 1 | — | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| Measles | 4 | 3 | 7 | — | 7 | 2 | 7 | 26 | 56 |
| Scarlatina | 9 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 3 | — | 1 | 6 | 53 |
| Whooping-cough | 1 | — | 5 | 3 | 4 | — | 7 | 14 | 34 |
| Croup | — | 1 | — | 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ | 2 |
| Diarrhoea | 114 | 9 | 41 | 250 | 39 | 23 | 18 | 356 | 850 |
| Dysentery | — | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 3 |
| Cholera | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ague | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Continued Fever | 4 | 11 | 10 | — | 2 | 5 | 4 | — | 36 |
| Rheumatic Fever | 1 | 24 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | 34 |
| Erysipelas | 1 | 13 | 2 | 3 | — | — | — | — | 19 |
| Delirium Tremens | 2 | 6 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 10 |
| Insanity | 5 | — | — | — | — | 18 | 3 | — | 26 |
| Bronchitis & Catarrh | 40 | 5 | 43 | 105 | 22 | 31 | 41 | 57 | 344 |
| Diphtheritis | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| Pleurisy | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 6 |
| Pneumonia | 2 | 14 | — | — | 2 | 1 | — | — | 19 |
| Pyæmia | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| Carbuncle | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| All other diseases | 381 | 5279 | 1257 | 824 | 231 | 305 | 124 | 686 | 9087 |
| Total | 574 | 5380 | 1382 | 1204 | 312 | 389 | 208 | 1147 | 10596 |