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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

Lewisham 1893

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham

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Whooping Cough46...........................10
Diphtheria32021...2..................53
Simple Continued or Ill-defined Fever....................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...11...1...4............10
Other Miasmatic Diseases....................................
2—Diarrheal Diseases.
Simple Cholera.......,............................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery34311......11142
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.
Syphilis31.........1...............5
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra....................................
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas2...............3221...10
Pyaemia, Septicaemia...11......1...............3
Puerperal Fever......232...............7
Totals5354306879432...176