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 Limehouse]
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The following Table exhibits the number of deaths registered from diseases of a Zymotic character during the last 6 years:—
DISEASE. | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 ! | 1873 | 1874 |
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Small-Pox | 29 | 34 | 66 | 8 | 3 | 0 |
Measles | 27 | 12 | 30 | 40 | 65 | 36 |
Scarlatina | 152 | 43 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 105 |
Hooping Cough | 89 | 44 | 47 | 49 | 70 | 30 |
Fever | 17 | 21 | 18 | 13 | 18 | 26 |
Diarrhœa | 65 | 73 | 67 | 64 | 85 | 45 |
Total | 379 | 227 | 216 | 193 | 260 | 242 |