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St George (Southwark) 1872

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]

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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health,—1871—72.
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Table: TABLE No. 4.

TABLE No. 4.

1871.—2BIRTHS.DEATHS.
Quarter ending June476363
Quarter ending September431312
Quarter ending December488357
Quarter ending March518382

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In Table No. 4, the number of Births and Deaths for each quarter of the year is
Given ; and in it will be seen, that the largest amount of both occurred in one quarter, that
Sanding March, the last quarter of the Vestry year.

Table: TABLE No. 5.

TABLE No. 5.

1867—81868—91869—701870—11871—2
First QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterTotalFirst QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterTotalFirst QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterTotal.First QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth Quarter Total.First QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterTotal
Small Pox71061242......2437311411249537922118120
???easles315413113165351413136463131017815201558
scarlatina65201142811293516596126152142717765789529
Diphtheria1212611316...12...31211522217
Whooping-Bough138212567191653432011222174855826811224182
Diarrhœa44446581168638876332751081663636678
Typhus6981134111012154811114103611881138547319

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Of all the classes of disease the Zymotic class is the most prevalent and fatal. This
class includes small pox, measles, scarlet fever, whooping-cough, diarrhoea, diphtheria, fever,
and other like diseases. It has long claimed the serious attention of the Sanitarian ; and
every now and then it challenges that of Society also. Always some of these diseases are
present, laying-up, crippling, or destroying. They heed neither place nor person. Whether
in the private house or public asylum ; whether in the crowded and busy town, or in the
dull and lonely hamlet; whether in the decayed hut, or stately ancestral home, hitherto
escape from them has been impossible. They care not for rank nor wealth ; they attack