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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 1869
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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Table II.
PARISH OF ST. GEORGE, HANOVER SQUARE.
Hanover, May Fair, and Belgrave Sub-Districts.
| Diseases. | Institutions. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Out-Patient Paupers | Hospitals, Dispensaries, Infirmaries, and Out-Patient Paupers | Total | |||||||
| St. George's Hospital | Royal Pimlico Dispensary | St. Paul & St. Barnabas' Dispensary | Belgrave Hospital | In-Wards | St. George's Dispensary | ||||
| Infirmary, Mount Street | Out-Patient Paupers | ||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
| Small-pox | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 |
| Chicken-pox | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Measles | 8 | 1 | 5 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 17 |
| Scarlatina | 15 | 17 | 10 | 16 | 1 | — | 5 | 5 | 69 |
| Whooping-cough | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | — | 7 |
| Croup | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 3 |
| Diarrhoea | 10 | 2 | 30 | 36 | 1 | — | 2 | — | 81 |
| Dysentery | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cholera | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ague | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Continued Fever | 3 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 29 |
| Rheumatic Fever | 3 | 8 | 23 | — | — | — | — | — | 34 |
| Erysipelas | 7 | 5 | 2 | 8 | — | 6 | — | — | 28 |
| Delirium Tremens | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| Insanity | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | 19 | 2 | — | 25 |
| Bronchitis & Catarrh | 121 | 8 | 81 | 252 | 48 | 57 | 62 | — | 629 |
| Diphtheritis | — | 1 | — | 8 | _ | — | 2 | — | 11 |
| Pleurisy | 7 | 1 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | 11 |
| Pneumonia | 3 | 8 | — | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | — | 22 |
| Pyaemia | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| Carbuncle | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| All other diseases | 242 | 4726 | 1579 | 860 | 300 | 239 | 108 | 729 | 8783 |
| Total | 427 | 4791 | 1739 | 1186 | 361 | 326 | 189 | 743 | 9762 |