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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
Paddington 1868
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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TABLE II.
The following Table shows the comparative Annual and Quarterly Mortality from Zymotic Diseases for the last 3 years ending March 1869.
| ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | 1866-67. | 1867-68. | 1868-69. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Quarter. | 2nd Quarter. | 3rd Quarter. | 4th Quarter. | Total. | 1st Quarter. | 2nd Quarter. | 3rd Quarter. | 4th Quarter. | Total. | 1st Quarter. | 2nd Quarter. | 3rd Quarter. | 4th Quarter. | Total. | |
| Small Pox | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ... | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ... | 3 |
| Measles | 20 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 31 | 9 | 7 | 41 | 19 | 76 | 10 | 3 | 7 | ... | 20 |
| Scarlatina | 3 | 11 | 27 | 15 | 56 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 31 | 3 | 14 | 22 | 7 | 46 |
| Diphtheria, Croup, &c | 3 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 25 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 24 |
| Whooping Cough | 28 | 6 | 21 | 60 | 15 | 12 | 27 | 27 | 82 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 44 | |
| Erysipelas, Pyaemia, &c | 6 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 24 |
| Fever, Typhoid, Typhus, &c | 8 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 28 | 10 | 9 | 14 | 14 | 51 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 18 | 57 |
| Diarrhoea, Dysentry, Cholera | 6 | 21 | 5 | 108 | 14 | 62 | 9 | 9 | 88 | 12 | 86 | 5 | 4 | 107 | |
| 77 | 118 | 78 | 69 | 342 | 69 | 109 | 108 | 89 | 378 | 63 | 138 | 67 | 61 | 325 | |