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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 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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the spring and summer quarters was nearly 3 degrees above
that average. The mean temperature of the year was 49'3
degrees, or 0 7 above the average of 124 years.
No death from English Cholera was registered
Influenza: 67 deaths of Parishioners were recorded from
this disease, a greater number than have been recorded
since 1892. Four Non-Parishioners also died from it in
the Parish. As there is no special column for this disease
in the table (A), ordered by the Local Government Board
to be used, the deaths from it are entered under other
headings according to the information given in the certificates.
Casks of Infectious Diseases.
The following table shows the number of cases certified
by Medical Attendants in 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, and
1895:—
Table XI.
| Name of Disease. | Number of Cases certified. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | 1895. | |
| Scarlet Fever | 145 | 122 | 318 | 567 | 255 | 298 |
| Enteric Fever | 40 | 26 | 42 | 62 | 65 | 37 |
| Continued Fever | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| Diphtheria | 64 | 74 | 118 | 111 | 97 | 92 |
| Erysipelas | 37 | 41 | 57 | 76 | 45 | 67 |
| Membranous Croup | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| Small-Pox | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 10 | 2 |
| Puerperal Fever | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| English Cholera | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 292 | 269 | 541 | 851 | 482 | 504 | |
Of the above 504 cases certified last year, only 10 were
also notified by householders.
Three other cases were also certified by the Medical
Attendants as Small-pox; but, on examining two of them,