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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) 1882

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark]

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Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southwark.
The proportion in which Measles and Whooping Cough occurred in different years
as epidemics of childhood, deprives each of them very much of its importance as a
test of the sanitary condition of the Parish.

Table: TABLE No. 4.

TABLE No. 4.

1882—3.BIRTHS.DEATHS.
Quarter ending June545344
Quarter ending September544297
Quarter ending December552305
Quarter ending March566329

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Table No. 5 gives the number of Zymotic Diseases for the several quarters.

Table: TABLE No. 5.

TABLE No. 5.

1878—9.1879—801880—11881—21882—3
First QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterFirst QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterFirst QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterFirst QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth. QuarterFirst QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth Quarter
Small Pox65......1............1...2111331...1...
Measles51148121333849122122114983116
Scarlatina135211432237231020159927123461312
Diphtheria243412122335...131551...
Whooping Cough423667361421933111151152521674
Diarrhoea988414193137896...401353253
Typhus6475422...24...11234123

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And it will ho seen that there has been an increase of Diphtheria over the past
year, but 8 of these occurred in the Evelina Hospital.