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 St. Marylebone]
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CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Notified to the Medical Officer of Health for Newington, during the year 1897, occurring in the several Wards:—
Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Other Continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Membranous Troup. | Cholera. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
St Mary's Ward | .. | 208 | 64 | 19 | .. | .. | 4 | 19 | 3 | .. | 317 |
St. Paul's Ward | .. | 101 | 36 | 10 | .. | .. | 1 | 19 | 2 | .. | 169 |
St. Peter's Ward | .. | 140 | 96 | 10 | .. | .. | 3 | 60 | 4 | .. | 313 |
St. John's Ward | .. | 224 | 76 | 23 | .. | .. | 7 | 47 | 4 | .. | 381 |
Trinity Ward | .. | 96 | 46 | 17 | .. | .. | 1 | 14 | .. | .. | 174 |
.. | 769 | 318 | 79 | .. | .. | 16 | 159 | 13 | .. | 1354 |
DEATHS IN THE SANITARY AREA FROM THE PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES IN THE VARIOUS WARDS.
Ward. | Smallpox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Enteric Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | Pneumonia and Bronchitis. | Heart Disease. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
St. Mary's | .. | 17 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 21 | 50 | 70 | 33 |
St. Paul's | .. | 10 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 4 | 23 | 50 | 64 | 30 |
St. Peter's | .. | 19 | 5 | 27 | 26 | 2 | 45 | 81 | 110 | 47 |
St. John's | .. | 29 | 17 | 13 | 17 | 2 | 54 | 68 | 149 | 53 |
Trinity | .. | 10 | 4 | 6 | 8 | .. | 22 | 36 | 82 | 20 |
Total | .. | 85 | 33 | 65 | 82 | 9 | 165 | 285 | 475 | 183 |