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 foe the last 22 years.
1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1661 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | 3 | 5 | .. | .. | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 21 | .. | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | .. | 3 | 18 | 6 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
Measles | 7 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 38 | 8 | 17 | 9 | 24 | 29 | 17 | 19 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 24 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 21 |
Scarlet Fever and Dipth. | 27 | 16 | 13 | 29 | 31 | 10 | 32 | 66 | 31 | 13 | 20 | 30 | 9 | 31 | 39 | 75 | 14 | 6 | .. | 13 | 19 | 14 |
Whpg. Cough | 60 | 26 | 26 | 18 | 22 | 34 | 47 | 33 | 22 | 29 | 17 | 21 | 34 | 21 | 43 | 12 | 19 | 30 | 18 | 14 | 28 | 14 |
Diarrhœa | 11 | 15 | 31 | 12 | 20 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 29 | 11 | 21 | 19 |
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 | 7 |
Cholera . | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Total | 130 | 79 | 03 | 70 | 117 | 80 | 109 | 135 | 126 | 100 | 81 | 105 | 88 | 88 | 119 | 136 | 90 | 102 | 77 | 45 | 75 | 70 |
During the 21 years, 1855—75, inclusive, the deaths from Zymotics were 2049, being an average yearly mortality of 96.6, in a population estimated at 33,500. The mortality from Zymotics in the year 1876 was 76. The following Table shows the Zymotic and some ether deaths in each quarter of the year 1870. |
I append also detailed tables of the mortality and
the diseases for the year 1876.
I have the honour to be,
Rev. Sir and Gentlemen,
Your faithful Servant,
JAMES EDMUNDS, M.D.
5, Savile Row, St. James's.