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 1878

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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Puerperal Fever............1...2.....................3...3
Dysentery1....................................11...1
Carbuncle...........................2............22...
Diarrhoea3143.........1...2............38412120
Simple Cholera1....................................11...1
Remittent Fever......1...............1............122...
Rheumatism.........1.........1......1............321
Pvoemia11.........2.....................2431
Order 2.—Enthetic.
Syphilis3....................................3312
Order 3.—Dietic....................................................
Want of Breast Milk4....................................4413
Purpura and Scurvy1.........1............1.........1321
Alcoholism.... . ..........311..................032
Order 4.—Parasitic.
Thrush9....................................9972
Totals972931178754441......157207102105
II. Constitutional Diseases.
Order 1.—Diathetic.
Gout..................1......2............312
Dropsy.....................21...1.........413
Cancer............1175981.........32923
Mortification..............................21......33...
Order 2.—Tubercular.
Scrofula1...1...1........................23...3
Tabes Mesenterica1131...1........................1516106