Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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Table V
DISEASE. | 1878. | 1879 | 1880. | 1881. | 1882. | 1833. | 1881 | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | Annual Average of ten years, 1878—1887 | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in ten years, 1878—1887. | 1888. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1888. |
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Small-pox | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Measles | 11 | 34 | 16 | 21 | 30 | 13 | 40 | 21 | 20 | 30 | 23.6 | 12.5 | 12 | 6.6 |
Scarlet Fever | 9 | 36 | 40 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 16 | 16.2 | 8.6 | 8 | 4.4 |
Diphtheria | 4 | 14 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 27 | 25 | 35 | 32 | 22 | 20.6 | 10.9 | 52 | 28.6 |
Whooping Cough | 64 | 33 | 50 | 15 | 63 | 21 | 43 | 19 | 40 | 23 | 37.1 | 19.7 | 28 | 15.4 |
Typhus Fever | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.0 |
Enteric (or Typhoid)Fever | 24 | 12 | 15 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 22 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 17.0 | 9.0 | 5 | 2.7 |
Simple Continued Fever | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | I | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 1 | 0.5 |
Diarrhœa | 54 | 32 | 39 | 33 | 34 | 27 | 44 | 37 | 45 | 58 | 40.3 | 21.4 | 27 | 14.9 |
Cholera | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0 | 0.0 |
Total | 183 | 166 | 182 | 136 | 179 | 129 | 185 | 136 | 153 | 166 | 161.5 | 85.5 | 133 | 73.1 |