London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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

Lewisham 1873

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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Metria or Puerperal Fever............131.....................5
Influenza...........................1............1
Dysentery...1...1...........................12
Diarrhoea18...111...1...211...1926
Simple Cholera3....................................33
Rheumatism............1...........................1
Order 2.—Enthetic.
Syphilis11.................................22
Order 3.—Dietic.
Want of Breast Milk11.................................22
Alcoholism...............12.....................3
Order 4.—Parasitic.
Thrush5....................................55
II. Constitutional Diseases.
Order 1.—Diathetic.
Gout..................1.....................1
Dropsy.....................1......2.........3
Cancer...............11278............19
Mortification...........................1............1
Order 2.—Tubercular.
Scrofula.........1..............................1
Tabes Mesenterica411..............................66
Phthisis21...62616171271.........388
Hydrocephalus1213.........1..................1617