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 St James's, Westminster]
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Table of Zymotic Disease for 14 Years.
Name of Disease.
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
Small Pox
3
5
..
..
4
4
1
1
21
..
2
1
3
2
Measles
7
5
13
10
38
8
17
9
24
29
17
19
17
11
Scarlet Fever
& Dipht.
27
16
13
29
31
16
32
66
31
13
20
30
9
31
Whpg. Cough
60
26
26
18
22
34
47
33
22
29
17
21
34
21
Diarrhœa
11
15
31
12
20
5
10
13
20
15
15
19
18
17
Typhus and
Typhoid Fev.
22
12
10
1
6
13
2
13
8
14
10
7
7
6
Cholera
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
8
• •
• •
Total
130
79
93
70
121
80
109
135
126
100
81
105
88
88
A glance at the above Table will shew the
Zymotic diseases which are most prevalent in our
Parish, and the fluctuations to which they are
exposed from year to year. In the fourteen years
there have been of—
Whooping Cough 408 Cases
Scarlet Fever and Diptheria 364 „
Measles 224 „
Diarrhœa 221 „
Typhus and Typhoid 131 „
Small Pox 47 „
Asiatic Cholera 8 „
1395
The average of the fourteen years is about