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
Hanover Square 1880
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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| DISEASE. | 1870. | 1871. | 1872. | 1873. | 1874. | 1875. | 1876. | 1877. | 1878. | 1879. | Annual Average of ten years, 1870- 879. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in ten years, 1870—1879. | 1880. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1880. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | 2 | 59 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 8.4 | 4.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Measles | 28 | 12 | 38 | 23 | 17 | 30 | 21 | 30 | 11 | 34 | 24.4 | 13.2 | 16 | 8.6 |
| Scarlet Fever | 133 | 39 | 15 | 9 | 32 | 40 | 22 | 19 | 9 | 36 | 35.4 | 19.2 | 40 | 21.6 |
| Diphtheria | 4 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 7.3 | 3.9 | 18 | 9.7 |
| Whooping Cough | 55 | 43 | 66 | 32 | 22 | 42 | 45 | 19 | 64 | 33 | 32.1 | 17.4 | 50 | 27.1 |
| Fever | 41 | 30 | 25 | 23 | 25 | 37 | 33 | 25a | 32b | 16c | 28.8 | 15.6 | 18d | 9.7 |
| Diarrhoea... | 80 | 65 | 71 | 58 | 61 | 60 | 47 | 35 | 54 | 32 | 56.3 | 30.5 | 39 | 21.1 |
| Cholera | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Total | 345 | 263 | 228 | 150 | 161 | 227 | 174 | 151 | 183 | 166 | 204.8 | 110.9 | 182 | 98.1 |
a. Viz., Typhus, 2; Enteric (Typhoid), 17; and simple continued Fever, 6.
b. Viz., ,, 4; „ 24; „ „ „ 4.
c. Viz., 2; ,, 12; ,, ,, ,, 2.
d. Viz., „ 1 ,,15; „ ,, ,, 2.