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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

St George (Southwark) 1881

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark]

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Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southwark.

Table: TABLE No. 4.

TABLE No. 4.

1881-2.BIRTHS.DEATHS.
Quarter ending June561268
Quarter ending September506310
Quarter ending December589320
Quarter ending March558380

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Taking the several quarters, the greatest number of deaths occurred in the fourth
quarter. This is accounted for by an epidemic of Whooping cough which proved fatal to
52 children, all under five years.
This disease assumed an epidemic character in London at the close of last year, and
has prevailed with exceptional fatality, for during the first thirteen weeks of this year 2224
Deaths from this cause were registered in London.

Table: TABLE No. 5.

TABLE No. 5.

1877—81878—91879—801880—11881—2
First QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterFirst QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterFirst QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterFirst QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterFirst QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth Quarter
Small-pox1111365......1............1...211133
Measles2947851148121333849122122114
Scarlatina5247135211432237231020159927123
Diphtheria11...1243412122335...121
WhoopingCough19151051423667361421933111151152
Diarrhoea94023988414193137896...4013
Typhus25526475422••24.........123