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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Table V.
DISEASE. | 1864. | 1865. | 1866. | 1867. | 1868. | 1869. | 1870. | 1871. | 1872. | 1873. | Annual Average of six years, 1868-1873. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in six years, 1868-1873. | 1874. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1874. |
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Small-pox | 12 | 3 | Records incomplete. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 59 | 3 | 1 | 11.3 | 5.9 | 0 | 0 | |
Measles | 11 | 72 | 37 | 14 | 28 | 12 | 38 | 23 | 25.3 | 13.8 | 17 | 10 | ||
Scarlet Fever | 58 | 57 | 71 | 46 | 133 | 39 | 15 | 9 | 52.1 | 28.5 | 32 | 18.9 | ||
Diphtheria | 16 | 25 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 9.3 | 5.1 | 2 | 1.2 | |||
Whooping Cough | 47 | 72 | 48 | 56 | 55 | 43 | 66 | 32 | 50.0 | 27.4 | 22 | 13 | ||
Fever | 60 | 48 | 22 | 36 | 41 | 30 | 25 | 23 | 29.5 | 16.1 | 25 | 14.7 | ||
Diarrhœa | 64 | 64 | 86 | 68 | 80 | 65 | 71 | 58 | 71.3 | 39.0 | 61 | 36 | ||
Cholera | 4 | 4 | .. | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 2 | 1.2 | |||
Total | 272 | 345 | 290 | 229 | 345 | 263 | 228 | 150 | 250.8 | 137.3 | 161 | 95 |