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 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, Mount Street | Out-Patient Paupers | ||||||||
1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
Small-pox | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Chicken-pox | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | — | 2 | 2 | 7 |
Measles | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | _ | 2 | _ | 2 | 20 |
Scarlatina | — | 12 | 8 | 14 | — | — | 1 | 3 | 38 |
Whooping-cough | 3 | — | 11 | 1 | 4 | — | — | — | 19 |
Croup | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | —_ | 2 |
Diarrhoea | 17 | 1 | 19 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 73 |
Dysentery | 1 | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 3 |
Cholera | _ | _ | _ | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Ague | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 |
Continued Fever | 1 | 20 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 2 | — | 52 |
Rheumatic Fever | 14 | 14 | 43 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 72 |
Erysipelas | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | — | 2 | 1 | 12 | |
Delirium Tremens | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 4 |
Insanity | 4 | 1 | — | — | — | 13 | 1 | — | 19 |
Bronchitis & Catarrh | 157 | 19 | 251 | 333 | 13 | 62 | 70 | — | 905 |
Diphtheritis | — | 3 | — | 3 | — | — | 3 | — | 9 |
Pleurisy | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | 8 |
Pneumonia | — | 23 | 1 | — | 5 | 3 | 1 | — | 33 |
Pyaemia | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 |
Carbuncle | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 |
All other diseases | 256 | 4589 _ | 1222 | 858 | 164 | 247 | 143 | 922 | 8401 |
Total | 462 | 4700 | 1589 | 1235 | 194 | 341 | 234 | 034 | 9689 |