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 Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster]
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Diseases. | Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 10. | 10 to 20. 1 | 20 to 30. | 30 to 40. | 40 to 50. | 50 to 60. | 60 to 70. | 70 k upwards. | Total. | Total of both Parishes. |
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Small Pox | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 2 | 7 |
Chicken Pox | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | • • | •• | 1 |
Measles | 1 | 3 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 4 | 0 |
Scarlet Fever | 2 | 5 | 1 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 8 | 15 |
Hooping Cough | 2 | 10 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 12 | 21 |
Diarrhoea | •• | 1 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 1 | 3 |
Dysentery | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• |
Cholera | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• |
Fever | •• | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | •• | 1 | • • | •• | •• | 7 | 10 |
Bronchitis and Pnoumonia | 8 | 10 | •• | •• | 2 | •• | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 38 | 69 |
Pleurisy | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• |
Croup | 1 | 1 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 2 | 3 |
Phthisis | 1 | 3 | •• | 5 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 3 | •• | 43 | 93 |
Hydrocephalus and Convulsions | 6 | 6 | 2 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 14 | 36 |
Apoplexy and Epilepsy | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 2 | •• | 2 | 6 |
Marasmus and Atrophy | 4 | 4 | 1 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 9 | 17 |
Violence, Privation & Preme-Birth | 3 | •• | •• | •• | 1 | •• | 1 | •• | •• | •• | 26 | |
Rheumatic Fever | •• | •• | •• | •• | 1 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 3 | |
Pyoemia | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• |
Other Diseases—chiefly Chronic | 8 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 58 | 124 | |
Total | 30 | 51 | 9 | 13 | 20 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 206 | 440 |