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. | 1879. | 1880. | 1881. | 1882. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | Annual Average of ten years. 1879—1888. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in ten years, 1879.—1888. | 1889. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1889. |
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Small.pox | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0 | 0. |
Measles | 34 | 16 | 21 | 30 | 13 | 40 | 21 | 20 | 30 | 12 | 23.7 | 12.7 | 49 | 29.3 |
Scarlet Fever | 36 | 40 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 16.1 | 8.6 | 1 | 0.6 |
Diphtheria | 14 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 27 | 25 | 35 | 32 | 22 | 52 | 25.4 | 13.6 | 36 | 21.6 |
Whooping Cough | 33 | 50 | 15 | 63 | 21 | 43 | 19 | 40 | 23 | 28 | 33.5 | 18.0 | 31 | 18.6 |
Typhus Fever | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0 | 0. |
Enteric (orTyphoid)Fever | 12 | 15 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 22 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 15.1 | 8.1 | 18 | 10.8 |
Simple Continued Fever | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2.0 | 1.1 | 1 | 0.6 |
Diarrhœa | 32 | 39 | 33 | 34 | 27 | 44 | 37 | 45 | 58 | 27 | 37.6 | 20.2 | 31 | 18.6 |
Cholera | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0. |
Total | 166 | 182 | 136 | 179 | 129 | 185 | 136 | 153 | 166 | 133 | 156.5 | 84.0 | 167 | 100.2 |