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. Giles District]
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| II. PARASITIC DISEASES. | ||||||||||||||||
| Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -_ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| III. DIETIC DISEASES. | ||||||||||||||||
| Want of Breast Milk-Starvation | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | 2 | - |
| Scurvy | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chronic Alcoholism | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Delirium Tremens | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 2 | 3 | - |
| 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | |
| IV. CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. | ||||||||||||||||
| Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 3 | 1 | - |
| Rheumatism | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Gout | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Rickets | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cancer, Malignant Disease | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 1 | - | - | 29 | 9 | 16 | 4 |
| Tabes Mesenterica | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus | 2 | 0 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 10 | - | 7 | 3 |
| Phthisis | - | - | 4 | 8 | 31 | 31 | 30 | 7 | 4 | - | - | - | 115 | 33 | 65 | 17 |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis. Scrofula | 6 | 4 | 5 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 10 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| Purpura, Haemorrhagic Diathesis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Anaemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythaemia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 1 |
| Other Constitutional Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 13 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 34 | 35 | 41 | 17 | 11 | 1 | - | 23 | log | 56 | 9S | 32 | |
| V. DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES. | ||||||||||||||||
| rremalure Birth | 19 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 3 |
| Atelectasis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Congenital Malfotination | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 20 | 15 | 9 | - | 48 | 10 | 34 | 4 | |
| 19 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 15 | 9 | 19 | 67 | 18 | 42 | 7 | ||
| VI. LOCAL DISEASES. | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. diseases of nervous system. | ||||||||||||||||
| Inflammation of Brain or Membranes . | - | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 7 | 17 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
| Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain | ||||||||||||||||
| Paralysis | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 3 | - | - | 39 | 9 | 25 | 5 |
| - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 5 | - | 5 | - | |
| Epilepsy | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 1 | 3 | - |
| Convulsions | 18 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 8 |
| Laryngismus Stridulus (Spasm of Glottis) | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Disease of Spinal Cord, Paraplegia, Paralysis Agitans | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Carried forward | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 4 | - | 27 | 90 | 26 | 49 | 15 |