London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Holborn 1895
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the half-year ending December, 1895
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Cases of Sickness under the care of the District Medical Officers during the 52 weeks ending December, 1895.
| Names of the Medical Officers. | Small Fox. | Chicken Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Continued Fever. (Typhus and Typhoid). | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Influenza. | Puerperal Fever. | Carbuncle. | Acute Pulmonary Inflammation. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Dysentery. | Diphtheria. | Delirium Tremens. | Insanity. | Syphilis. | Congenital Syphilis. | Lead Poison. | Other Diseases. | All Diseases. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronchitis and Catarrh. | Pleurisy. | Pneumonia. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total ... | 4 | 56 | 6 | 92 | 79 | 2 | 4 | 69 | 567 | 20 | 21 | 142 | ... | 1 | 8 | 4 | 1017 | 2092 | ||||||||
| Corresponding weeks, 1894. | 1 | 2 | 37 | 4 | 63 | 24 | 1 | ... | 11 | 14 | 1 | 364 | 8 | 11 | 153 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 1106 | 1817 | ||||||