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Holborn 1895
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the half-year ending December, 1895
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TABLE IV. INFECTIOUS DISEASES RETUKN for 26 weeks, ending 28th December, 1895.
| DATE. | 2 weeks, 13 July. | 2 weeks, 27 July. | 2 weeks, 10 Aug. | 2 weeks, 24 Aug. | 2 weeks, 7 Sept. | 2 weeks, 21 Sept. | 2 weeks, 5 Oct. | 2 weeks, 19 Oct. | 2 weeks, 2 Not. | 2 weeks, 16 Nov. | 2 weeks, 30 Nov. | 2 weeks, 14 Dec. | 2 weeks, 28 Dec. | Total, 1895. | Total, 1894. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox. | 1895 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | • •• | 10 | — | |||||||
| 1894 | 2 | l | 1 | I | l | — | 6 | |||||||||
| Scarlatina and Scarlet Fever. | 1895 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 116 | — |
| 1894 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | — | 27 | |||
| Diphtheria and MembranousCroup. | 1895 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 36 | — | |
| 1894 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ••• | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | 18 | ||||
| Typhoid and Enteric Fever. | 1895 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | — | ||||
| 1894 | 4 | 1 | 1 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | 16 | ||||||
| Erysipelas. | 1895 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | i | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 38 | — | |
| 1894 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | — | 31 | ||