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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

Marylebone 1902

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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DIAGRAM B.
DIAGRAM showing the variations, month by month, in the average incidene
of Small-pox mortality in London during the fifty years 1841-90, and the
variations, month by month, in the average number of Smalt-pox patient
admitted to the Metropolitan Asylum and Highgate Hospitals during the fifteen
years 1876-90.
A.—MEAN REGISTERED DEATHS FROM SMALL-POX.
(50 years 1841-90.)
The mean line represents an average weekly number of 17 deaths.
B.—MEAN ADMISSIONS OF SMALL-POX PATIENTS TO THE
METROPOLITAN ASYLUM AND HIGHGATE HOSPITALS.
(15 years 1876-90.)
The mean line represents an average weekly number of 57 admissions.