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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| Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| "Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| III. DIETIC DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Want of Breast Milk—Starvation | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Scurvy | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chronic Alcoholism | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Delirium Tremens | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | |
| IV. CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Rheumatism | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gout | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Rickets | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cancer, Malignant Disease | - | - | - | 1 | 13 | 17 | - | 31 | 11 | 9 | 11 |
| Tabes Mesenterica | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | 5 | - | 4 | 1 |
| Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus | 7 | 5 | 3 | - | - | - | 12 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| Phthisis | - | - | 1 | 8 | 98 | 9 | - | 116 | 18 | 59 | 39 |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | - | 6 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 |
| Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Anaemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Other Constitutional Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 10 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 121 | 27 | 22 | 190 | 41 | 90 | 59 | |
| V. DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| Premature Birth | 35 | - | - | - | - | - | 35 | 35 | 11 | 12 | 12 |
| Atelectasis | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | 2 | 1 |
| Congenital Malformation | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Old Age | - | - | - | - | - | 48 | - | 48 | 19 | 26 | 3 |
| 38 | - | - | - | - | 48 | 38 | 86 | 30 | 40 | 16 | |
| VI. LOCAL DISEASES. | |||||||||||
| 1. DISEASES OK NERVOUS SYSTEM. | |||||||||||
| Inflammation of Brain or Membranes | - | - | - | - | 3 | 5 | - | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
| Apoplexy, Softening of Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis | - | - | - | - | 22 | 22 | - | 44 | 16 | 19 | 9 |
| Insanity, General Paralysis of the Insane | - | - | - | - | 5 | 7 | - | 12 | 4 | 8 | - |
| Epilepsy | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | - |
| Convulsions | 13 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 15 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 |
| Laryngismus Stridulus (Spasm of Glottis) | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 |
| Disease of Spinal Cord, Paraplegia, Paralysis Agitans | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 3 | - | 2 | 1 |
| Other Diseases of Nervous System | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Carried forward | 14 | 3 | - | - | 33 | 37 | 17 | 87 | 30 | 36 | 21 |