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. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT,
1866.
Report on the Health ot the Parish of St. Martin-in-theFields
for the Year 18GG.
In the year 1866, there have been 571 births and 566
deaths. 205 of the deaths occurred iu children under
the age of live years, and 124- in persons over sixty
years. There have been 82 deaths from zymotic
diseases, which is much below the usual average. We
have had two deaths only from smallpox, although this
disease has been so prevalent that the SmallpoxHospital
has been found quite inefficient to receive
more than a very small proportion of the cases which
have occurred in the Metropolis during the last year.
The consequence has been, that the infection has been
necessarily retained in the confined habitations of the
poor, and the disease has spread to a very great extent.
Nothing can show more decidedly the wisdom of having
Hospitals large enough to receive all cases of infectious
diseases. No institutions are so much needed as
a sufficient number of Hospitals in different districts of
our overcrowded city, for the reception of cases of
smallpox, fever, and other contagious diseases, because
by such means alone can we hope to limit the spread
of these disorders.
In the year 1865 there were 99 deaths from zymotic
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"Sewers' Rate."
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The Urinals have been flushed and kept clean. At Ivy Bridge Lane water has been laid on for the purpose of cleansing the same.............. | 79 | 4 | ||||
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