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. Giles District]
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II. PARASITIC DISEASES. | ||||||||||||||||
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -_ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
III. DIETIC DISEASES. | ||||||||||||||||
Want of Breast Milk-Starvation | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | 2 | - |
Scurvy | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Chronic Alcoholism | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Delirium Tremens | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 2 | 3 | - |
2 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | |
IV. CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. | ||||||||||||||||
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 3 | 1 | - |
Rheumatism | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Gout | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 |
Rickets | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Cancer, Malignant Disease | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 1 | - | - | 29 | 9 | 16 | 4 |
Tabes Mesenterica | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus | 2 | 0 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 10 | - | 7 | 3 |
Phthisis | - | - | 4 | 8 | 31 | 31 | 30 | 7 | 4 | - | - | - | 115 | 33 | 65 | 17 |
Other forms of Tuberculosis. Scrofula | 6 | 4 | 5 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 10 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 |
Purpura, Haemorrhagic Diathesis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Anaemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythaemia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 1 |
Other Constitutional Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
13 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 34 | 35 | 41 | 17 | 11 | 1 | - | 23 | log | 56 | 9S | 32 | |
V. DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES. | ||||||||||||||||
rremalure Birth | 19 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 3 |
Atelectasis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Congenital Malfotination | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 20 | 15 | 9 | - | 48 | 10 | 34 | 4 | |
19 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 15 | 9 | 19 | 67 | 18 | 42 | 7 | ||
VI. LOCAL DISEASES. | ||||||||||||||||
1. diseases of nervous system. | ||||||||||||||||
Inflammation of Brain or Membranes . | - | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 7 | 17 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain | ||||||||||||||||
Paralysis | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 3 | - | - | 39 | 9 | 25 | 5 |
- | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 5 | - | 5 | - | |
Epilepsy | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 1 | 3 | - |
Convulsions | 18 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 8 |
Laryngismus Stridulus (Spasm of Glottis) | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Disease of Spinal Cord, Paraplegia, Paralysis Agitans | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
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Carried forward | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 4 | - | 27 | 90 | 26 | 49 | 15 |