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 London, City of ]
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No. IV.—
In the successive years terminating severally as follows :— | Fever. | Acute Diarrhœa (not of infants) Dysentery, and Cholera. | Scarlet-Fever. and Cynanche maligna. | Small-Pox. | Erysipelas, Pyœmia, and Puerperal Fever. | Diarrhoea, Bronchitis and Pneumonia of infants under 3 year6 of age. | Measles, Hooping-cough and Croup. | Hydrocephalus and Convulsions of infancy. | Total of preceding columns. |
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At Michaelelmas,1849 | 166 | 825 | 135 | 17 | 44 | 285 | 196 | 264 | |
„ „ 1850 | 118 | 54 | 32 | 33 | 40 | 243 | 124 | 219 | |
„ „ 1851 | 107 | 23 | 46 | 41 | 17 | 340 | 272 | 282 | |
„ „ 1852 | 165 | 37 | 86 | 96 | 24 | 330 | 132 | 308 | |
„ „ 1853 | 145 | 43 | 85 | 15 | 26 | 304 | 190 | 289 | |
Total Number of such Deaths in the Five Years 1848-5.3 | |||||||||
Average | 140 | 196 | 77 | 40 | 30 | 301 | 183 | 272 | |
Year ending at Michaelmas, 1854 | 146 | 233 | 149 | 9 | 15 | 278 | 231 | 307 |