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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) 1881

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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Table: Table V.Showing the number of Deaths in each of the ten years,1871to 1880, from the principal infectious Diseasesand Diarrhoea, and the number in1881.

Table V.

Showing the number of Deaths in each of the ten years,1871to 1880, from the principal infectious Diseasesand Diarrhoea, and the number in1881.

DISEASE.1871.1872.1873.1874.1875.1876.1877.1878.1879.1880.Annual Average of ten years, 1871—1880.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in ten years, 1871—1880.1881.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1881.
Small-pox5931002125008.24.594.7
Measles1238231730213011341623.212.72110.9
Scarlet Fever39159324022199364026.114.3189.3
Diphtheria109221639414188.74.8147.2
Whooping Cough4366322242451964335041.622.7157.8
Fever30252325373325a32b16c18d26.414.424e12.4
Diarrhœa6571586160473554323952.228.53317.1
Cholera5122212411211.121.0
Total2q3228150161227174151183166182188.5103.013670.4

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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.
e. Viz., „ 8; „ „ 20; „ „ „ 1.