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Hanover Square 1895

[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-Pox00031l1
Measles4513482292710
Scarlet Fever26122410118
Diphtheria12192326182023
Whooping Cough48211912202425
Typhus Fever0000000
Enteric (Typhoid) Fever59811888
Simple continued Fever2102211
Diarrhoea29312128102433
Cholera0010000
Total14310013210898116109
Influenza27467513153567

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