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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

Rotherhithe 1872

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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Table: The table below will illustrate the relative number or deaths occasioned by some of the most important epidemic diseases, during the last seven years.

The table below will illustrate the relative number or deaths occasioned by some of the most important epidemic diseases, during the last seven years.

Disease.1867186818691870187118721873Deaths total.
Fever10121513912475
Small Pox186352331389
Scarlatina1441012421513191
Measles412197912467
Whooping Cough21122922151321133
Diarrhoea18202925222233109
Diptheria...11...2318
Varicella............1...1
Asiatic Cholera21..................21
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