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 Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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II. Sickness. — The number of cases of sickness
relieved by the usual public institutions in the Hanover
and May Fair sub-districts has been 833, against 964 in
the preceding quarter of this year, and 1,030 in the corresponding
quarter of last year.
Amongst these were 107 cases, being about an eighth
of the whole, of catarrh and bronchitis, or what is popularly
called cold, 27 of diarrhoea, 22 of fever or febricula,
2 of small-pox, 10 of measles, 1 of diphtheria, 5 of scarlatina,
and 22 of sore-throat of various kinds, some cases
being dependent on the scarlatina poison.
Population. | Total Parish patients. | Deaths of children. | Deaths of adults. | |
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Moder Lodgings | ||||
Brick Street | ||||
Brown Street | ||||
Hertford Place | ||||