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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

Shoreditch 1893

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch for the year 1893

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(1) Miasmatic.
Small Pox......12.................................33
Measles28964........................12421392642128
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)12582l1...............2641171638
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)1596343l..................11114362871149
Influenza...123456186...161041636
Whooping Cough264411.....................70722202372
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......5633..................233917
Simple Continued Fever.........1........................1.........1
Other Miasmatic Diseases...3...........................3...12...3
(2) Diarrhœal Diseases.
Diarrhœa and Dysentery125292...221...23115420354567167
Simple Cholera (Choleraic Diarrhœa)1...1...1..................1...21...3
(3) Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and effects of Vaccination1..............................11.........1
(4) Tubercular Diseases.
Tabes Mesenterica2271......1...............292691431
Phthisis11108366472409133...21405463109266
Hydrocephalus and Tubercular Meningitis162610...111............42418122155
Other forms, Scrofula9117131...............2041061232
(5) Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis13..............................13...34613
(6) Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas2111...42...31...3142815
Pyaemia, Septicæmia...2......11621......2142613
Puerperal Fever.........131.....................2215