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 Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]
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TAJBX/E 3.—
Week | DEATHS, from local weekly returns | Barometer corrected Mean | Thermometer (Averases) | Dew Point. Mean. | Wind | Bain in inches | |||||||
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Total Zymotic Disease | Diarrhoea | (Jhest Diseases | Total Mortality | Average of the eeks for 10 years | of Highest | of Lowest | |||||||
Phthisis | All other | ||||||||||||
1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 25.0 | 30.001 | 65.8 | 55.0 | 52.8 | S.W. | 0.07 | The amount of Rain was much less than the Average of the Quarter for many years, which, according to Howard, is 7.998; in the corresponding Quarter last year 4.54. Meteorology from Dr. Thomson's reports taken at St. Thomas's Hospital. |
2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 28.4 | 29.258 | 59.6 | 48.9 | 45.4 | s.w. | 0.75 | |
3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 27.7 | 29.893 | 61.8 | 52.4 | 50.6 | variable | 0.10 | |
4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 25.4 | 29.687 | 58.5 | 50.4 | 49.6 | variable | 3.15 | |
5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 28 | 26.3 | 29.848 | 58.4 | 48.8 | 45.7 | S.W. | 0.10 | |
6 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 33 | 27.3 | 29.867 | 59.0 | 52.4 | 51.4 | variable | 0.58 | |
7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 31 | 27.4 | 30.487 | 53.4 | 44.2 | 42.5 | N.E. | 0.00 | |
8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 27 | 30.8 | 30.220 | 51.3 | 43.4 | 40.9 | Easterly | 0.00 | |
9 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 30 | 30.3 | 29.729 | 49.2 | 40.7 | 39.2 | Northerly | 0.00 | |
10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 27 | 35.0 | 29.958 | 52.0 | 43.6 | 43.4 | S.W. | 0.37 | |
11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 31.2 | 30.482 | 52.5 | 44.4 | 45.0 | s.w. | 0.00 | |
12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 31 | 28.3 | 30.184 | 51.3 | 45.4 | 42.8 | S.W. | 0.28 | |
13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 29.7 | 30.204 | 53.3 | 45.7 | 42.8 | Westerly | 0.05 | |
14 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 31 | 31.5 | 30.483 | 46.0 | 38.3 | 38.4 | W. | 0.00 | |
56 | 12 | 47 | 89 | 343 | 404.3 | 30.021 . | 55.1 | 46.7 | 45.0 | S.W. | 5.45 | ||
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