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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

City of London 1853

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]

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Table: No. IV.— Number of Deaths occasioned, during the Five Years, 1848-53,by certain Acute Diseases, chiefly Epidemic, Infectious, Endemic.

No. IV.— Number of Deaths occasioned, during the Five Years, 1848-53,by certain Acute Diseases, chiefly Epidemic, Infectious, Endemic.

In the successive years terminating severally as follows :—Fever.Acute Diarrhœa (not of infants) Dysentery, and Cholera.Scarlet-Fever. and Cynanche maligna.Small-Pox.Erysipelas, Pyœmia, and Puerperal Fever.Diarrhoea, Bronchitis and Pneumonia of infants under 3 year6 of age.Measles, Hooping-cough and Croup.Hydrocephalus and Convulsions of infancy.Total of preceding columns.
At Michaelelmas,184916682513517442851962641932
„ „ 185011854323340243124219863
„ „ 1851107234641173402722821128
„ „ 1852165378696243301323081178
„ „ 1853145438515263041902891097
Total Number of such Deaths in the Five Years 1848-5.3701982384202151150291413626198
Average1401967740303011832721240
Year ending at Michaelmas, 18541462331499152782313071368