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 1886

[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,1875to1884,from the principal infectious Diseasesand Diarrhœa, and the number in1885.

Table V.

Showing the number of Deaths in each of the ten years,1875to1884,from the principal infectious Diseasesand Diarrhœa, and the number in1885.

DISEASE.1875.1876.1877.1878.1879.1880.1881.1882.1883.1884.Annual Average of ten years, 1875—1884.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in ten years, 1875—1884.1885.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1885.
Small-pox021250091023.11.621.1
Measles3021301134162130134024.613.02111.8
Scarlet Fever40221993640181311721.511.4105.6
Diphtheria1639414181415272514.57.73519.7
Whooping Cough4245196433501563214339.520.91910.7
Typhus Fever37332421300125.900.0
Enteric (orTyphoid)Fever172412152021212213.784.5
Simple Continued Fever6422108121.1
Diarrhœa6047355432393334274440.521.43720.8
Cholera21241122101.60.821.1
Total227174151183166182136179129185171.290.513676.4