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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The following is a Table of Zymotic Disease for the last 21 Years.
1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | 3 | 5 | .. | . . | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 21 | . . | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | . . | 3 | 18 | 6 | 1 | . . | . . |
Measles | 7 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 38 | 8 | 17 | 9 | 24 | 29 | 17 | 19 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 24 | 20 | 1 | 4 |
Scarlet Fever and Dipth. | 27 | 16 | 13 | 29 | 31 | 16 | 32 | 66 | 31 | 13 | 20 | 30 | 9 | 31 | 39 | 75 | 14 | 6 | .. | 13 | 19 |
Whpg. Cough | 60 | 26 | 26 | 18 | 22 | 34 | 47 | 33 | 22 | 29 | 17 | 21 | 34 | 21 | 43 | 12 | 19 | 30 | 18 | 14 | 28 |
Diarrhoea | 11 | 15 | 31 | 12 | 20 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 29 | 11 | 21 |
Typhus and Typhoid Fev. | 22 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 3 |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Total | 130 | 79 | 93 | 70 | 117 | 80 | 109 | 135 | 126 | 100 | 81 | 105 | 88 | 88 | 119 | 136 | 90 | 102 | 77 | 45 | 75 |
I append also detailed tables of the mortality and
the diseases for the year 1875.
I have the honour to be,
Rev. Sir and Gentlemen,
Your faithful Servant,
JAMES EDMUNDS, M.D.
5, Savile Row, St. James's.