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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

St Giles (Camden) 1862

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]

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Table: Cases of Disease and Deaths, occurring in the Practice of the Workhouse in 1862, and its four Quarters.

Cases of Disease and Deaths, occurring in the Practice of the Workhouse in 1862, and its four Quarters.

Cases occurring.Within Walls of Workhouse, (Infirmary and Inmates.)Among Out- Patients attending at Workhouse.Among Patients visited at their own homes.
Quarters or the Year.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.Whole Year.First.SecondThird.Eourth.Whole Year.First QuarterSecond Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.Whole Year.
Cases.New Cases.Deaths.New CasesDeaths.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases. No Deaths.New Cases.Deaths.New CasesDeaths.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases.DeathsNew 1 Cases.Deaths.
Of all Diseases46611036554390553587415792936729091088107237415125754730>7527689302323144
Small pox..................1...1...11......2112...............31
Measles1...6...1...2...10...2121712437247...41...65...1602
Scarlet Fever............5120...25144911287...91195272628
Whooping Cough2.........71......911163323533.........4...123
Diarrhoea1.........1...2...4...491093041736357...6...27...5...45...
"Fever and Febricula "12...10...8...7...37...7087105833457711102...112466135723
"Typhus Fever "1341287572266835927...............2.........10.........12...
Ague...........................................................................
Bronchitis (acute and chronic)61333212391071192037414822519726483465352250110512727
Inflammation of the Lungs & Pleura134314182288776626165161142625210
Consumptive Diseases32193619301529151276892321116415917111551796434
Ophthalmia6...3...3.........12...116311.........1...2...3...