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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London being 2 64, and that for the 33 largest English towns
2.84. The only large towns showing a lower zymotic deathrate
than this Parish are Huddersfield 1.20, Halifax and
Bristol 1.30, and Croydon 1.32.
The highest zymotic death-rates in the country are furnished
by Liverpool 4.01, Wolverhampton 4.23, Bolton
4.45, Salford 4.96, and Blackburn 5.63.
T able X.
Deaths of Parishioners from the principal Infectious Diseases and from Diarrhoea:—
Disease. | 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | Average from 1890 to 1894. | 1896. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-Pox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | l | 1 |
Measles | 45 | 13 | 48 | 2 | 29 | 27 | 10 |
Scarlet Fever | 2 | 6 | 12 | 24 | 10 | 11 | 8 |
Diphtheria | 12 | 19 | 23 | 26 | 18 | 20 | 23 |
Whooping Cough | 48 | 21 | 19 | 12 | 20 | 24 | 25 |
Typhus Fever | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Enteric (Typhoid) Fever | 5 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
Simple continued Fever | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Diarrhoea | 29 | 31 | 21 | 28 | 10 | 24 | 33 |
Cholera | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 143 | 100 | 132 | 108 | 98 | 116 | 109 |
Influenza | 27 | 46 | 75 | 13 | 15 | 35 | 67 |
Taking these diseases separately, according to the order
in which they are placed in Table X., we find that:—
Small Fox caused one death in the Parish.
Measles caused 10 deaths of Parishioners, or only a little
over one-third of the annual average.
Scarlet Fever caused only 8 deaths of Parishioners, being