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 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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| DISEASE. | 1881. | 1882. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1880. | 1890. | Annual Average of ten years, 1881—1890. | Proportion of Deaths to l,00o Deaths in ten years, 1881—1800. | 1891. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1891. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 |
| Measles | 21 | 30 | 13 | 40 | 21 | 20 | 30 | 12 | 49 | 49 | 28.5 | 15.5 | 13 | 6.9 |
| Scarlet Fever | 18 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 8.7 | 4.7 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Diphtheria | 14 | 15 | 27 | 25 | 35 | 32 | 22 | 52 | 36 | 29 | 28.7 | 15.6 | 16 | 8.5 |
| Whooping Cough | 15 | 63 | 21 | 43 | 19 | 40 | 23 | 28 | 31 | 48 | 33.1 | 18.0 | 24 | 12.7 |
| Typhus Fever | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
| Enteric (orTyplioid)Fever | 20 | 21 | 21 | 22 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 18 | 12 | 15.4 | 8.3 | 14 | 7.4 |
| Simple Continued Fever | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Diarrhœa | 33 | 34 | 27 | 44 | 37 | 45 | 58 | 27 | 31 | 29 | 36.5 | 19.8 | 39 | 20.7 |
| Cholera | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 136 | 179 | 129 | 185 | 136 | 153 | 166 | 133 | 167 | 171 | 155.5 | 84.3 | 108 | 57.2 |