London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St George (Southwark) 1862
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]
This page requires JavaScript
Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
15
The foregoing Table shews the ages in which deaths have taken place from these diseases
that occasion the largest mortality:
TABLE No. 6.
| 1857—58 | 1858—59 | 1859—60 | 1860—61 | 1861—62 | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | First Quarter | Second Quarter | Third Quarter | | Fourth Quarter • | Total j | First Quarter | 1 Second Quarter | Third Quarter | Fourth Quarter | Total | First Quarter | Second Quarter | Third Quarter | Fourth Quarter | Total | First Quarter | Second Quarter | Third Quarter | Fourth Quarter | Total | First Quarter 1 | Second Quarter | Third Quarter | Fourth Quarter | Total. |
| Small Pox | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 25 | 32 | 22 | 88 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| Measles | 5 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 25 | 31 | 12 | 1 | 69 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 16 | 4 | 48 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 13 | |
| Scarlatina and Diptheria | 4 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 27 | 9 | 31 | 45 | 25 | 110 | 15 | 18 | 23 | 12 | 68 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 44 | 9 | 13 | 40 | 17 | 79 |
| Hooping | 28 | 12 | 10 | 20 | 70 | 24 | 14 | 13 | 21 | 72 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 35 | 11 | 11 | 17 | 18 | 57 | 40 | 10 | 12 12 | 15 6 31 | |
| Diarrhoea .... | 9 | 56 | 12 | 2 | 79 | 7 | 49 | 11 | 3 | 70 | 7 | 58 | 4 | 62 | 6 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 28 | 6 | 38 | ||||
| Typhus...... | 7 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 38 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 29 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 25 | 10 | o | 5 | ||
Table No. 6 the deaths from a few other zymotic diseases, during the different quarters
for five years.
TABLE No. 7.
| LUNG DISEASES. INCLUDING PHTHISIS. | 1857—58 | 1858—59 | 1859—60 | 1860—61 | Average of 4 Years | 1861—62 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phthisis | 170 | 146 | 210 | 173 | 174.75 | 194 |
| Bronchitis | 138 | 131 | 130 | 105 | 126 | 108 |
| Pneumonia | 81 | 103 | 86 | 90 | 90 | 78 |
Phthisis and Bronchitis have both proved more fatal in the last, than in the former
year, by 21 and 3 deaths. There have, however, been 12 deaths less from Pneumonia.
The deaths under five years of age have increased by 104. Premature birth and debility
are marked as the cause of 32 deaths, a diminution of 12. An increase of 12 has taken
place from violence and privation. The most important of these I will particularize. Nine
Infants have died from suffocation, varying in age from five days to nine months. One out
of the number died from a fit of coughing, brought on by taking a dose of medicine. A