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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 (Camberwell) 1871

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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fatal as the affections which have been considered
above, and partly because (although they mainly
destroy the young) their mortality is by no means
limited to those who are under 5 years of age;
small-pox especially caused many deaths among
adults.

Table: The infectious fevers generally were not very fatal during the year, as the accompanying table (in which I have included the mortality for these diseases for the last 6 years) shows:—

The infectious fevers generally were not very fatal during the year, as the accompanying table (in which I have included the mortality for these diseases for the last 6 years) shows:—

Hooping CoughMeaslesDiphtheriaScarlet FeverFeverSmallpoxTotal
1866723811595335268
18676420875419217
1868586717714513271
1869134439164469405
18704924101925723355
187150299040153341

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Hooping cough, measles, diphtheria, scarlet fever,
and fever, indeed, have rarely been less fatal;
and if we allow for the increase of deaths due to
increase of population, the comparative healthiness
of the year as regards these diseases becomes very