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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

Fulham 1896

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1896

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Ages.
CAUSES OF DEATH.0-11-55-1515—2525—3535-4545—5555—6565-7575-8585 and upwds.Total under 5Total.Total 1895.
I.—Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small pox..........................................
Measles2169821..................9010150
Scarlet Fever51751.....................222821
Typhus Fever..........................................
Whooping Cough2939...........................686850
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup638322.....................447877
Simple Continued and Illdefined Fever.......................................1
Enteric and Typhoid Fever...13211...1.........1912
Influenza1...1...112223...11366
Other Miasmatic Diseases1..............................11...
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Cholera...1...........................11...
Diarrhœa Dysentery10923.........1...13......132137133
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever..........................................
Ague..........................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination..........................................
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever)..........................................
5.— Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis13.........1..................131418
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra.....................1............1...
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas2.........11......1......256