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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Giles (Camden) 1864
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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Cases of Disease and Deaths, occurring in the Practice of the Workhouse in 1864, and its four Quarters.
| Cases occurring.— | Within Walls of Workhouse, (Infirmary and Inmates.) | Among Out- Patients attending at Workhouse. | Among Patients visited at their own homes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| In Quarters of the Year | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | Whole Year. | First. | Second | Third. | Fourth | Whole Year. | First Quarter | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | Whole Year. | ||||||||||
| Cases. | New Cases. | Deaths. | New Cases. | Deaths. | New Cases. | Deaths. | New Cases. | Deaths. | New Cases. | Deaths. | New Cases. No Deaths. | New Cases. | Deaths. | New Cases | Deaths. | New Cases. | Deaths. | New Cases. | Deaths. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||
| Of all Diseases | 496 | 111 | 313 | 65 | 264 | 50 | 387 | 92 | 1490 | 318 | 1347 | 1419 | 1758 | 1202 | 5726 | 785 | 68 | 628 | 54 | 322 | 53 | 883 | 74 | 2918 | 249 |
| Small Pox | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | … | 2 | … | 13 | 5 | 1 | ... | 1 | … | 2 | 10 | 1 | 3 | … | 1 | … | 10 | 2 | 24 | 3 |
| Measles | … | ... | 2 | … | 3 | … | 15 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 36 | 66 | 2 | … | 32 | 2 | 41 | 3 | 178 | 6 | 253 | 11 |
| Scarlet Fever | … | … | 5 | … | … | … | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 5 | 33 | 3 | … | 17 | 3 | 61 | 2 | 37 | 3 | 118 | 8 |
| Whooping Cough | 10 | 1 | 5 | … | … | … | … | … | 15 | 1 | 17 | 11 | 19 | 12 | 59 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 39 | 12 |
| Diarrhœa | 1 | … | 6 | … | 3 | … | 1 | … | 10 | … | 90 | 195 | 547 | 97 | 929 | 16 | 1 | 29 | 2 | 38 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 97 | 8 |
| "Fever and Febricula" | 11 | … | 16 | … | 33 | … | 21 | … | 81 | ... | 130 | 157 | 176 | 180 | 643 | 55 | … | 51 | … | 73 | … | 101 | … | 280 | … |
| " Typhus Fever " | 123 | 14 | 72 | 10 | 41 | 6 | 110 | 12 | 146 | 42 | … | 1 | … | 2 | 3 | 52 | 4 | 40 | 2 | 41 | 7 | 90 | 1 | 223 | 14 |
| Ague | ... | … | … | … | ... | … | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | … | .. | … | 1 | 1 | … | … | 1 | … | … | ... | 1 | … | 2 | ... |
| Bronchitis (acute and chronic) | 70 | 30 | 40 | 16 | 25 | 11 | 52 | 13 | 187 | 70 | 487 | 299 | 193 | 329 | 1308 | 178 | 19 | 57 | 5 | 33 | 4 | 109 | 10 | 377 | 38 |
| Inflammation of the Lungs & Pleura | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 21 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 66 | 60 | 8 | 50 | 8 | 24 | 5 | 56 | 13 | 190 | 34 |
| Consumptive Diseases | 32 | 22 | 21 | 15 | 20 | 12 | 26 | 21 | 99 | 70 | 21 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 62 | 34 | 6 | 31 | 8 | 20 | 4 | 45 | 17 | 130 | 35 |
| Ophtalmia | 2 | ... | 4 | … | 3 | ... | 1 | … | 10 | ... | 14 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 45 | 3 | ... | 4 | ... | 1 | ... | … | … | 8 | ... |