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. | 1869. | 1870. | 1871. | 1872. | 1873. | 1874. | 1875. | 1876. | 1877. | 1878. | Annual Average of ten years, 1869—1878. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in ten years, 1869—1878. | 1879. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1879. |
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Small.pox | 1 | 2 | 59 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 8.5 | 4.5 | 0 | 0 |
Measles | 14 | 28 | 12 | 38 | 23 | 17 | 30 | 21 | 30 | 11 | 22.4 | 12.3 | 34 | 16.5 |
Scarlet Fever | 46 | 133 | 39 | 9 | 32 | 40 | 22 | 19 | 9 | 36.4 | 20.0 | 36 | 17.5 | |
Diphtheria | 7 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 6.6 | 36 | 14 | 6.8 |
Whooping Cough | 56 | 55 | 43 | 66 | 32 | 22 | 42 | 45 | 19 | 64 | 44.4 | 24.4 | 33 | 16.0 |
Fever | 36 | 41 | 30 | 25 | 23 | 25 | 37 | 33 | 25a | 32b | 30.8 | 16.9 | ???c | 7.3 |
Diarrhoea | 68 | 80 | 65 | 71 | 58 | 61 | 60 | 47 | 35 | 54 | 59.9 | 32.9 | 32 | 15.5 |
Cholera | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2.2 | 10 | 1 | 0.5 |
Total | 229 | 345 | 263 | 228 | 150 | 161 | 227 | 174 | 151 | 183 | 211.1 | 115.8 | 166 | 80.7 |
a. Viz., Typhus, 2; Enteric (Typhoid), 17 ; and simple continued Fever, 6.
b. Viz., „ 4; „ „ 24; „ „ „ 4.
c.Viz., „ 2; „ „12; „ „ „ 2.