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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Hanover Square 1863

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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TO THE
Vestry of St. George, Honober Squar.
My Lords and Gentlemen,

Table: This is a greater number than was registered in the corresponding quarters of the foregoing five years, viz.:—

This is a greater number than was registered in the corresponding quarters of the foregoing five years, viz.:—

Zymotic diseases.
1858 2nd quarter47989
185942181
186045081
186141184
186245379

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The excess for the present quarter is found among the
deaths from zymotic diseases, which amounted to 134;
whereas in the corresponding quarter of last year they were
only 79. Hence the weekly average of deaths for this quarter,
42, exceeds that of the corresponding weeks of ten years,
which is 32.
Amongst the deaths were 25 of parishioners from smallpox,
1 of which occurred in the Hanover, 2 in the Mayfair,