London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
St George (Westminster) 1878
[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. | 1868. | 1869. | 1870. | 1871. | 1872. | 1873 | 1874. | 1875. | 1876. | 1877. | Annual Average of ten years, 1868-1877. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in ten years, 1868-1877. | 1878. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1878. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | 3 | 1 | 2 | 59 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 12 | 8.2 | 4.8 | 5 | 3.0 |
| Measles | 37 | 14 | 28 | 12 | 38 | 23 | 17 | 30 | 21 | 30 | 25.0 | 14.7 | 11 | 6.6 |
| Scarlet Fever | 71 | 46 | 133 | 39 | 15 | 9 | 32 | 40 | 22 | 19 | 42.6 | 25.0 | 9 | 5.4 |
| Diphtheria | 24 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 3 | 9 | 8.6 | 5.0 | 4 | 2.4 |
| Whooping Cough | 48 | 56 | 55 | 43 | 66 | 32 | 22 | 42 | 45 | 19 | 42.8 | 25.1 | 64 | 38.6 |
| Fever | 22 | 36 | 41 | 30 | 25 | 23 | 25 | 37 | 33 | 25* | 29.8 | 17.5 | 32† | 19.3 |
| Diarrhœa | 86 | 68 | 80 | 65 | 71 | 58 | 61 | 60 | 47 | 35 | 63.1 | 37.0 | 54 | 32.6 |
| Cholera | — | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 4 | 2.4 |
| Total | 290 | 229 | 345 | 263 | 228 | 150 | 161 | 227 | 174 | 151 | 221.8 | 130.0 | 183 | 110.4 |
*Viz., Typhus, 2; Enteric (Typhoid), 17; and simple continued Fever, 6.
† Viz., „ 4; „ „ „ 4.