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St George (Southwark) 1880

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark]

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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Healh—t1880—81. 13
TABLE No. 5.
1876—7
1877—8
1878—9
1879—80
1880—1
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter
Small-pox
...
...
9
17
11
1
1
3
6
5
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
1
...
2
Measles
4
2
16
10
29
4
7
8
5
11
4
8
12
13
3
3
8
4
9
12
Scarlatina
7
16
7
6
5
2
4
7
13
5
21
14
3
22
37
23
10
20
15
9
Diphtheria
3
3
...
1
1
1
...
1
2
4
3
4
1
2
1
2
2
3
3
5
WhoopingCough
12
10
6
11
19
15
10
51
42
36
6
7
3
6
14
2
19
3
3
11
Diarrhœa
8
49
4
2
9
40
2
3
9
88
4
1
4
19
3
1
3
78
9
6
Typhus
5
1
4
3
2
5
5
2
6
4
7
5
4
2
2
••
2
4
...
...
TABLE No. 6.
1871-2
1872-3
1873-4
1874-5
1875-6
1876-7
1877-8
1878-9
1879-80
1880-1
Small-pox
120
18
1
...
...
26
16
11
1
3
Measles
58
8
57
27
48
32
48
28
31
33
Scarlatina
29
11
16
51
78
36
18
53
85
54
Diphtheria
7
5
8
4
10
7
3
13
6
13
Whooping-cough
82
45
63
54
88
39
95
91
75
36
Diarrhœa
78
70
108
72
68
63
54
102
27
96
Fever
19
20
13
18
15
13
14
22
8
6
The deaths from Small-pox have amounted to three, and a few cases only have been
reported as having occurred in this Parish; but with an epidemic raging in the neighbouring
Parishes we can hardly expect to escape. In the presence of such an epidemic I
cannot but regard the practice of Re-vaccination as one of the most important sanitary
measures to which we can have recourse, but unfortunately there still exist objections