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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 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]

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Table: TABLE B.TABLE OF NEW CASES OF SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1889, in the Urban Sanitary District of Lime-house ; classitied according to Localities and Diseases.

TABLE B.

TABLE OF NEW CASES OF SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1889, in the Urban Sanitary District of Lime-house ; classitied according to Localities and Diseases.

Names OF Localities.New Cases of sickness in Persons belonging to the district, those in Children under five years of age.
Smallpox.Measles.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Croup (not spasnodle)Whooping Coughcontinues feversDlasrrhoa and DysenteryCholera.Rhcumatic feverFryalpelas.Pyacmla.Perpetual. Fever.Ague.Other Diseases, such as Chicken pox or pneumonia which the medical officer of Health Thinks well to record.
TjphoaEnterie or Typhold.Other or Doubtful.
11213141516171819202122232425262728Chicken Pox. Pneumonia.
Limehouseunder 5....154614627...1478......2............17
,,5 Upwds....6461334• • *25237...311............8
RatcliffUnder 5....31312941......3199......1.........223
„& upwds....41414411...8965...27......1210
Shadwell and WappingUnder 5....1218181453...19227......2.........536
„6Upwds....12224612...61476149.... . ....29
TotalsUnder 6....30774429121...216504......5.........776
5upwds....1182511327139251781927......1427

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GEORGE HURLOCK, Inspector.