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 1887

[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,1876to1885,from the principal infectious Diseases andDiarrhoea and the number in1886.

Table V.

Showing the number of Deaths in each of the ten years,1876to1885,from the principal infectious Diseases and

Diarrhoea and the number in1886.

DISEASE.1876.1877.1878.1870.1880.1881.1882.1883.18841885.Annual Average of ten years, 1870—1885.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in ten years, 1876—1885.1886.Proportion of Deaths to l,000] Deaths in 1886
Small-pox212500910223.11.600.0
Measles2130113416213013402123.712.62010.5
Scarlet Fever22199364018131171018.59.821.0
Diphtheria3941418141527253516.48.73216.8
Whooping Cough4519643350156321431937.219.84021.0
Typhus Fever3324213001023.212.300.0
Enteric (or Typhoid)Fever17241215202121228126.3
Simple Continued Fever64221081210.5
Diarrhœa4735543239333427443738.220.34523.7
Cholera12411221021.60.810.5
Total174151183166182136179129185136161.985.915380.3