London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1896
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham District]
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| Whooping Cough | 18 | 6 | 2 | ... | 26 | ||||||||
| Diphtheria | 2 | 40 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 82 | 1 | ||||||
| Simple Continued or Ill-defined Fever | |||||||||||||
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | |||||
| Other Miasmatic Diseases | |||||||||||||
| Simple Cholera | |||||||||||||
| Diarrhœa, Dysentery | 71 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 87 | ||||||
| Remittent Fever | |||||||||||||
| Ague | |||||||||||||
| Cowpox and effects of Vaccination | |||||||||||||
| Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever) | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 5.— Venereal Diseases. | |||||||||||||
| Syphilis | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra | |||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||
| Pyæmia, Septicæmia | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 107 | 89 | 47 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 275 | 2 |
*By filling in this Column the Statistics of Table III. will be made comparable with those of the Weekly and Quarterly Returns of
the Registrar-General, and also available for the Reports required by the Local Government Board.