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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) 1868

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

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Table: Cases of Disease and Death, occurring in the Practice of the Workhouse in 1868, and its Four Quarters.

Cases of Disease and Death, occurring in the Practice of the Workhouse in 1868, 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.
In Quarters of the YearFirst Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter 'Fourth Quarter.Whole Year.First.SecondThird.Fourth 1Whole Year.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.Whole Year.
Cases.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases.Deaths.JNew Cases.Deaths.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases.Deaths.
Of all Diseases421713615137948353801514250140918412809809488944187587863313441207
Small Pox....................................12 deaths from Comsumption occurred during the year.1221...4...1...182
Measles16...5...61......271...172349...49224...5...1272
Scarlet Fever1.....................1.........304...5...6446221356
Whooping Cough3...............3023322649251317...2111233
Diarrhœa1...2.........1...4...95290134116...882118812...23410
"Fever and Febricula"26131...2312021004869529580149...175...16414682
"Typhus Fever".................................1711...212914...469
Cholera.....................................................................
Bronchitis (acute and chronic)7215361031650181894924120970801240366171132129953
Inflammation of the Lungs & Pleura85414311427131518416864514517
Consumption3119371122836251266318234225522627830510424
Ophthalmia1...7...18...5...31...101611.........2...1...4...7...