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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) 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]

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Table: 3.—Scarlet Fever (decennial average 5.2)

3.—Scarlet Fever (decennial average 5.2)

Year.No. of Notifications received.Removals to Hospitals.No. of Deaths in Hospitals.No. of Deaths at Home.Total No. of Deaths.
189865 and 4 duplicates46112

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There were 69 notifications and 46 removals to
hospitals against 205 and 164 respectively in the preceding
year.
The 581 deaths from this cause in all London were
also below the corrected average.
4.—Whooping-Cough (decennial average 17.9).
Was the cause of 9 children's deaths as compared
with 18, 13, and 13 in the preceding three years
successively.
5.—Diarrhœa (decennial average 19.6).
The 22 deaths from diarrhoea, 19 of which were those
of children under 5 years, were slightly above the
average.
In all London diarrhoea was returned as the cause of
4,376 deaths, which were equal to a rate of 0.97 per 1,000,
the highest rate recorded in any year since 1886.

Table: 6. —D iphtheria (decennial average 12.4).

6. —D iphtheria (decennial average 12.4).

Year.No. of Notifications received.Removals to Hospitals.No. of Deaths in Hospitals.No. of Deaths at Home.Total No. of Deaths.
18984627516

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