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 St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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TABLE IV.
Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Buckingham Street | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | l | 1 |
Charing Cross Hospital | .. | l | .. | †4 | .. | ‡7 | §1 | 13 |
Mercer Street | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
Northumberland Avenue | .. | l | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Peabody Buildings | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | •• | l | 2 |
.. | *2 | .. | 4 | l | 7 | 4 | 18 |
* Both these deaths from Measles were those of non-parishioners.
†Three of these deaths from Diphtheria, occurring in the Charing Cross Hospital, were
those of non-parishioners.
‡These seven deaths from Fever, occurring in the Charing Cross Hospital, were those of
non-parishioners.
§This death from Diarrhoea, occurring in the Charing Cross Hospital, was that of a nonparishioner.