London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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St James's 1876

[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.

1855185618571858185918601661186218631864186518661867186818691870187118721873187418751876
Small Pox35....441121..2132..31861....1
Measles7513103881792429171917111413624201421
Scarlet Fever and Dipth.2716132931103266311320309313975146..131914
Whpg. Cough60262618223447332229172134214312193018142814
Diarrhœa1115311220510132015151918171326282829112119
Typhus and Typhoid Fev.221210161321381410776107489637
Cholera .......................8........1..........
Total130790370117801091351261008110588881191369010277457570
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.