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 Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster]
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Diseases. | Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 10. | 10 to 20. | 20 to 30. | 30"to 40. | 40 to 50. | 50 to 60. | 60 to 70. | 70 & upwards. | Total. |
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Small Pox | •• | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | •• | •• | •• | •• | 5 |
Chicken Pox | 1 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 1 |
Measles | •• | 2 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 2 |
Scarlet Fever | •• | 6 | 2 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 7 |
Hooping Cough | 6 | 3 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 9 |
Diarrhoea | •• | 1 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 2 |
Dysentery | •• | • • | • • | •• | •• | •» | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• |
Cholera | •• | • • | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• |
Fever | •• | 1 | 1 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 1 | 3 |
Bronchitis and Pneumonia | 6 | 2 | 1 | •• | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 31 |
Pleurisy | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• |
Croup | •• | 1 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 1 |
Phthisis | 1 | •• | 3 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 5 | .. | 50 |
Hydrocephalus and Convulsions | 14 | 6 | 2 | 1 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | • • | 22 |
Apoplexy and Epilepsy | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 1 | 1 | •• | 2 | 4 |
Marasmus and Atrophy | 4 | 4 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | • • | 8 |
Violence, Privation &Preme-Birth | 5 | 9 | 1 | 1 | •• | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | • • | 21 |
Rheumatic Fever | •• | 1 | •• | •• | 1 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 2 |
Pyaemia | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | • • | .. |
Other Diseases—chiefly Chronic | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 15 | 66 | |
Total | 42 | 32 | 12 | 9 | 21 | 29 | 24 | 26 | 21 | 234 |