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. VII.—Number of Deaths occasioned, during the Seven Years, 1848-55, by certain Acute Diseases, chiefly Epidemic, Endemic and Infectious.
In the successive years terminating severally as follows | Fever. | Acute Diarrhoea (not of infants) Dysentery, and Cholera. | Scarlet-Fever and Cynanche maligna. | Small-Pox. | Erysipelas, Pysemia and Puerperal Fever. | Diarrhoea, Bronchitis and Pneumonia of infants under 3 years of age. | Measles, Hooping-cough and Croup. | Hydrocephalus and Convulsions of infancy. | Total of preceding columns. |
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At Michaelmas, 1849 | 166 | 825 | 135 | 17 | 44 | 285 | 196 | 264 | 1932 |
„ „ 1850 | 118 | 54 | 32 | 33 | 40 | 243 | 124 | 219 | 863 |
„ „ 1851 | 107 | 23 | 46 | 41 | 17 | 340 | 272 | 282 | 1128 |
„ „ 1852 | 165 | 37 | 86 | 96 | 24 | 330 | 132 | 308 | 1178 |
„ „ 1853 | 145 | 43 | 85 | 15 | 26 | 304 | 190 | 289 | 1097 |
„ „ 1854 | 146 | 233 | 149 | 9 | 15 | 278 | 231 | 307 | 1368 |
Total Number of such Deaths in the Six Years 1848-54.. | 847 | 1215 | 533 | 211 | 166 | 1780 | 1145 | 1669 | 7566 |
Average | 141 | 202 | 89 | 35 | 28 | 297 | 191 | 278 | 1261 |
Year ending at Michaelmas, 1855 | 129 | 88 | 196 | 58 | 31 | 319 | 200 | 249 | 1270 |