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St James's 1865

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]

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Table: In this respect the year 1865 bears favourable comparison with previous years. The liability of one form of these diseases to gain ascendancy over the others, will be seen by the following table, which gives the entire number of each particular form of Zymotic disease for the last four years.

In this respect the year 1865 bears favourable comparison with previous years. The liability of one form of these diseases to gain ascendancy over the others, will be seen by the following table, which gives the entire number of each particular form of Zymotic disease for the last four years.

1862.1863.18641865.
Diarrhœa13201527
Hooping Cough,33222917
Measles,9242917
Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria,66311320
Small Pox,121. .2
Typhus and Typhoid,1381410
13512610093

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There are two features in the returns of last
year worthy of notice, and these are the increase of
Diarrhoea and the decrease of Typhus.
DIARRHŒA AND CHOLERA.
From the foregoing table it will be seen that in
1865 there had been a larger number of cases of
Diarrhœa than in the three preceding years, and it
will be seen from the following table that in the
preceding nine years there had been only one year,
1857, in which the deaths from Diarrhoea had reached
so high a figure.

Table: DEATHS FROM DIARRHŒA.

DEATHS FROM DIARRHŒA.

18551856185718581859186018611862186318641865
111531122051013201527

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At the time that this high mortality from
Diarrhœa prevailed, there was unquestionable
evidence that Asiatic Cholera had once more gained
access to the Continent of Europe, and had appeared
in more than one of the sea-ports of England. I