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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Report of the Medical Officer of Health, for the first Quarter, 1858. 7
TABLE 5.—
Weeks | OUT - DOOR | WORKHOUSE | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kent Road, Mr. Babbage | London Road, Mr. Wakem | Borough Road, Mr. Llewellyn | Mr. Brown | |||||||||
Old Cases | New Cases | Total | Old Cases | New Cases | Total | Old Cases | New Cases | Total | Old Cases | New Cases | Total | |
1 | 19 | 39 | 58 | 28 | 27 | 55 | 70 | 41 | 111 | 111 | 18 | 129 |
2 | 36 | 33 | 69 | 38 | 39 | 77 | 69 | 42 | 111 | | 125 | 10 | 135 |
3 | 18 | 37 | 55 | 48 | 32 | 80 | 73 | 29 | 102 | 127 | 5 | 132 |
4 | 39 | 41 | 80 | 46 | 29 | 75 | 72 | 37 | 109 | 118 | 5 | 123 |
5 | 45 | 32 | 77 | 48 | 37 | 85 | 71 | 41 | 112 | 118 | 10 | 128 |
6 | 34 | 36 | 70 | 43 | 32 | 75 | 71 | 36 | 107 | 126 | 9 | 135 |
7 | 44 | 36 | 80 | 40 | 32 | 72 | 69 | 33 | 102 | 122 | 11 | 133 |
8 | 26 | 33 | 59 | 58 | 29 | 87 | 48 | 33 | 81 | 122 | 11 | 133 |
9 | 37 | 36 | 73 | 47 | 31 | 78 | 52 | 48 | 100 | 119 | 10 | 129 |
10 | 27 | 28 | 55 | 41 | 41 | 82 | 74 | 38 | 112 | 122 | 12 | 134 |
11 | 35 | 28 | 63 | 37 | 37 | 74 | 59 | 50 | 109 | 129 | 6 | 135 |
12 | 20 | 89 | 59 | 43 | 35 | 78 | 79 | 35 | 114 | 127 | 9 | 136 |
13 | 35 | 22 | 57 | 19 | 25 | 44 | 71 | 18 | 89 | 119 | 9 | 128 |
TOTAL. | 415 | 440 | Average under care weekly, 65 | 536 | 426 | Average under care weekly, 74 | 878 | 481 | Average under care weekly, 104 | 125 | Average under care weekly, 131 | |
Grand Total Out-door—Old Cases, 1829, New Cases, 1347 = Average under care weekly—Out-door, 243—In-door, 131. | ||||||||||||
N.B.—It should be here remarked, that "Old Cases" means only those cases of illness that remain on the hooks more than one week, and consequently involve repetitions of the same case. | ||||||||||||
Corresponding Quarter of last Year | 678 | 396 | 82 | 422 | 382 | 62 | 1127 | 604 | 133 | 157 |