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 Paddington]
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The following Reports and Pamphlets on Public Health
have been received with thanks:—
Manual for Medical Officers of Health, by Ed. Smith, M.D.; ditto On Foods, byEd.
Smith, M.D. Manual of Hygiene, by Ed. Wilson, M.D.
General and Special Sanitary Hints for Preventing the Spread of Infectious Diseases
such as Scarlet Fever, Small Pox, Measles, Typhus, &c.—The Fylde Union.
On Scientific Instruments, by M. Pillischer.
A. and M. Zimmerman's Chemical, Physiological and other Scientific Apparatus.
British Medical Association Museum Catalogue, illustrated by wood cuts.
Milk, Typhoid Fever and Sewage, by A. Smee, F.R.S., F.C.S., &c., with other Letters
and Papers on the same Subject.
What to do in Disinfection, and how to do it, with Reports on Mudie's Town,
Agricultural, and Marine Disinfectants.
On the Properties of Chlorozone. Dr. Fox's Dust Box and Cinder Sifter.
Catalogue of the Sanitary and Educational Exhibition of the Social Science Congress
at Norwich, October 8th, 1873.
A Few Suggestions relative to Defects in the Metropolitan Building Act as applied to
Dwelling Houses, by H. II. Collins, Esq., Member of the Royal Institute of
British Architects and Institute of Surveyors.
Bye-laws and Annual Report of the Medical Officers of Health Association.
Reports of the Medical Officers of Health:—Of Hackney, by J. W. Tripe, M.D.
&c.; of Marylebone, by. J. Whitmore, M.D.; of Whitechapel, by J. Liddle;
of St. Giles' District for 1872, by Geo. Ross, M.D.; of Islington, by Meymott
Tidy, M,D., &c.; of Kensington, by T. O. Dudfield, M.D.; of Wandsworth, for
1872, of St. James,'Westminster; of St. George's, Hanover Square; of Liverpool,
W. S. Trench, M.D.; of Birkenhead, G. O. Bailis, M.D.; of Nottingham,
by Ed. Seaton, M.D., of Merthyr Tidfil, &c.; of Glasgow, by W. T. Gardener,
M.D., and Kenneth Macleod, Esq.; of Cockermouth Union, and other Urban
Authorities, by J. M. Fox, M.D., &c.
Rules of the Board of Health of the City of Chicago; of the Dublin Sanitary
Association.
Printed Reports of the Medical Officer of Health on the Vital Statistics
and Health of the Parish of Paddington, Sfc.
Annual Reports for 1868-69-70-71-72-73.
Quarterly Reports and Statistical Returns—No. 1 to 26.
Report on the Pollution of the Water and cleansing of the Canal Basin—1868.
Report on the means of carrying out Disinfection in an adequate and effectual manner
in the Parish—1869.
Report on the erection of a Public Mortuary in the Parish, and upon the Management
thereof—1867.
Practical Sanitary Hints as to the best measures for preventing the spread of the
catching or epidemic diseases.
Report and Catalogue of Sanitary Articles exhibited at Leeds in 1871, prepared by
Dr. Hardwicke. Also of the Sanitary aud Educational Exhibition at Norwich
in October 1873.
TABLE V.
Localities in which Deaths from Zymotic and other Diseases have been recorded during the Quarter ending December 25th, 1872.
Streets, Districts and Hospitals. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria, &c. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus & other Fevers. | Erysipelas, &c. | Diarrhoea, &c. | Phthisis, &c. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia, &c. | Violent Deaths. | Other Diseases. | Total. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
St. Mary's Hospital | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 21 | 43 |
Paddington Workhouse | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 10 | 1 | 16 | 30 |
Lock Hospital | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
Praed Street, including (1) | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 10 | 7 | 1 | 16 | 39 |
Harrow Road & N. W. Road (2) | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 23 |
Hall Park District (3) | .. | 3 | .. | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 7 | 6 | .. | 9 | 29 |
Amberly Road District (4) | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 6 | 10 | .. | 12 | 33 |
Kilburn District(5) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 4 | .. | 12 | 18 |
Clarendon Street, 107 h., 1788 p. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | .. | 5 | 13 |
Woodchester Street, 95 h., 1427 p | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | • | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
Cirencester Street, 97 h., 1511 p | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 6 | 2 | 4 | 16 |
Westbourne Park District(6) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | 4 | 8 |
Hampden Street, &c.(7) | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 7 | 8 | .. | 4 | 22 |
Weslbourne Terrace North. &c.(8) | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 9 | 1 | 27 | 46 |
Woodfield Road, &c. (9) | .. | .. | 1 | . . | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 4 | 5 | . . | 8 | 20 |
Moscow Road, SalemGardens, & c. (10) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
Squares and Mansions (11) | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 6 | 11 | 1 | 22 | 44 |
Mews and Stables (12) | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | .. | 8 | 18 | |
Other Places, including (13) | .. | 1 | .. | .. | † | .. | 1 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 32 | 57 | |
Total | 1 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 78 | 115 | 21 | 209 | 480 |