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 1885
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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Table V.
Showing the number of Deaths in each of the ten years, 1874 to 1883 , from the principal infectious Diseases and Diarrhoea, and the number in 1884.
| DISEASE. | 1874. | 1875. | 1876. | 1877. | 1878. | 1879. | 1880. | 1881. | 1882. | 1888. | Annual Average of ten years, 1874—1883. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in ten years, 1874—1883. | 1884. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1884. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small.pox | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 2 | 1.1 |
| Measles | 17 | 30 | 21 | 30 | 11 | 34 | 16 | 21 | 30 | 13 | 22.3 | 11.9 | 40 | 21.3 |
| Scarlet Fever | 32 | 40 | 22 | 19 | 9 | 36 | 40 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 240 | 12.8 | 7 | 3.7 |
| Diphtheria | 2 | 16 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 27 | 12.2 | 6.5 | 25 | 13.3 |
| Whooping Cough | 22 | 42 | 45 | 19 | 64 | 33 | 50 | 15 | 63 | 21 | 37.4 | 20.0 | 43 | 22.9 |
| Typhus Fever | 25 | 37 | 33 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 26.0 | 13.9 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Enteric (or Typhoid) Fever | 17 | 24 | 12 | 15 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 22 | 11.7 | |||||
| Simple Continued Fever | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0.5 | |||||
| Diarrhoea | 61 | 60 | 47 | 35 | 54 | 32 | 39 | 33 | 34 | 27 | 42.2 | 22.6 | 44 | 23.4 |
| Cholera | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Total | 161 | 227 | 174 | 151 | 183 | 166 | 182 | 136 | 179 | 129 | 168.8 | 90.2 | 185 | 98.4 |