[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster] page 37

St James's 1872

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

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duties in life covered with the invisible germs of
disease, and spread it in all directions among those
who have not had an attack. Thus, a melancholy
amount of life is destroyed every year.
Our annual bill against these diseases for the last
eighteen years, is as follows:-

Table: Table of Zymotic Disease foe 18 Years.

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Table of Zymotic Disease foe 18 Years.

Name of Disease.	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	Average
Small Pox	3	5	..	..	4	4	1	1	21	..	2	1	3	2	..	3	18	6	4
Measles	7	5	13	10	38	8	17	9	24	29	17	19	17	11	14	13	6	24	14
Scarlet Fever and Dipth.	27	16	13	29	31	16	32	66	31	13	20	30	9	31	39	75	14	6	27
Whpg. Cough.	60	26	26	18	22	34	47	33	22	29	17	21	34	21	43	12	19	30	27
Diarrliœa	11	15	31	12	20	5	10	13	20	15	15	19	18	17	13	26	28	28	17
Typhus and Typhoid Fev.	22	12	10	1	6	13	2	13	8	14	10	7	7	6	10	7	4	8	9
Cholera	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	8	..	..	..	..	1	..	..
Total	130	70	93	70	121	80	109	135	126	100	81	105	88	88	119	136	90	102

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Table: Table of Zymotic Disease foe 18 Years.