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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
Hanover Square 1894
Medical Officer's report for the year ended 29th December, 1894
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Table IX.
Showing the number of Deaths registered in the Parish in each of the ten years, 1884 to 1893, from the principal infectious Diseases and Diarrhoea% ancl the number in 1894.
| DISEASE. | 1881. | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. | 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | Annual Average of ten years, 1884—1893. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in ten years, 1884—1893. | 1894. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1894. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.22 | 0 | 0 |
| Measles | 40 | 21 | 20 | 30 | 12 | 49 | 49 | 13 | 49 | 9 | 28.5 | 15.76 | 31 | 20.53 |
| Scarlet Fever | 7 | 10 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 .5 | 3.04 | 1 | 0.66 |
| Diphtheria | 25 | 35 | 32 | 22 | 52 | 36 | 29 | 16 | 25 | 49 | 32.1 | 1776 | 24 | 15.89 |
| Whooping Cough | 43 | 19 | 40 | 23 | 28 | 31 | 48 | 24 | 20 | 13 | 28.9 | 15.99 | 24 | 15.89 |
| Typhus Fever | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 |
| Enteric (orTyphoid)Fever | 22 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 18 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 27 | 14.3 | 7.91 | 23 | 15.23 |
| Simple Continued Fever | 1 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1.3 | 0.72 | 2 | 1.34 |
| Diarrhoea ......... | 44 | 37 | 45 | 58 | 27 | 31 | 29 | 39 | 20 | 34 | 36.4 | 20.13 | 14 | 9.27 |
| Cholera............ | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.28 | 0 | 0 |
| Total ...... | 185 | 13 6 | 153 | 166 | 133 | 167 | 171 | 108 | 129 | 132 | 148.0 | 81.86 | 119 | 78.81 |
| N.B.—In this Table the deaths of Non.Parishioners registered in the Parish are included. | ||||||||||||||