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 &c upwards. | Total. |
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Small Pox | 2 | 3 | 4 | .. | .. | 2 | ,. | •• | •• | .. | 11 |
Chicken Pox | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• |
Measles | •• | 2 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 2 |
Scarlet Fever | 1 | 4 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 5 |
Hooping Cough | 2 | 6 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 8 |
Diarrhoea | •• | •• | •• | -• | •« | •• | •» | •• | •• | •• | |
Dysentery | •* | •• | •• | •• | •• | • • | •• | •• | •• | •• | |
Cholera | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | # • | •• | •• | •• | •• | • • |
Fever | •• | 3 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 3 |
Bronchitis and Pneumonia | 23 | 12 | 2 | •• | 1 | 4 | 2 | •• 14 | 7 | 4 | 69 |
Pleurisy | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | • • |
Croup | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | • • | |
Phthisis | •• | 1 | .. | 5 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 2 | •• | 33 |
Hydrocephalus and Convulsions | 13 | 11 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | • • | 24 | |
Apoplexy and Epilepsy | •• | •• | 1 | •• | •• | •• | 1 | •• | •• | 1 | 3 |
Marasmus "and Atrophy | 8 | 1 | 1 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 10 | |
Violence, Privation &Preme-Birth | 3 | 2 | • • | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 17 |
rheumatic fever | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | .. |
Pyaemia | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• |
Other Diseases—chiefly Chronic | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 73 |
Total | 58 | 50 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 20 | 22 | 33 | 19 | 23 | 258 |