Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1894
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TABLE V.
DISEASE. | 1884. | 1885- | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. | 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | Annual Average of 10 Years. 1884 to 1893. | 1894. |
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Small-Pox | 2 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 7 | — |
Measles | 10 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 7.1 | 9 |
Scarlet Fever | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2.8 | 1 |
Diphtheria | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 3.7 | 5 |
Whooping Cough | 13 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 6.6 | 5 |
Fever | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | — | 1 | 1.7 | 3 |
Diarrhœa | 14 | 6 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5.9 | 3 |
Total | 44 | 33 | 37 | 24 | 33 | 24 | 23 | 24 | 29 | 14 | 28.5 | 26 |
* Under the head Fever, is included Typhus, Typhoid, Continued, Relapsing and Puerperal.