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 Kensington]
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in a population multiplying with great rapidity. Of this number, 142
occurred in the Consumptive Hospital, nearly all being non-parishioners.
No deaths are returned from the Cancer Hospital, as it has been removed
from Kensington into Chelsea parish. 113 paupers died in the Workhouse,
viz., 53 males and 58 females.
MALES. | FEMALES. | TOTAL. | |
---|---|---|---|
Mortality for the Tear ending January
Brompton, 1863. | Small Fox | Measles | Scarlatina | Whooping Cough | Diarrhoea | Fever | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7 | |||||||
l | 9 | ... | ... | ||||
... | 4 | ||||||
4th | ... | 1 | 7 | ||||
4 | |||||||
7 | |||||||
17 | 3 | ||||||
7 | |||||||
82 | |||||||
83 | 54 |
A very severe outbreak of small-pox occurred all over London, and,
as will be seen, we lost as many as 49 from that loathsome disease.
The mortality has also been above the average from measles (83 and 30)
and diarrhœa (54 and 21).