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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T he following is a T able of Zy motic D isease fob the last 23 Y ears.
1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | |
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Small Pox | 3 | 5 | • • | • • | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 21 | • • | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | • • | 3 | 18 | 6 | 1 | .. | • • | 1 | 3 |
Measles | 7 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 38 | 8 | 17 | 9 | 24 | 29 | 17 | 19 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 24 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 8 |
Scarlet Fever and Dipth. | 27 | 16 | 13 | 29 | 31 | 16 | 32 | 66 | 31 | 13 | 20 | 30 | 9 | 31 | 39 | 75 | 14 | 6 | • • | 13 | 19 | 14 | 7 |
Whpg. Cough . | 60 | 26 | 26 | 18 | 22 | 34 | 47 | 33 | 22 | 29 | 17 | 21 | 34 | 21 | 43 | 12 | 19 | 30 | 18 | 14 | 28 | 14 | 7 |
Diarrhoea . | 11 | 15 | 31 | 12 | 20 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 29 | 11 | 21 | 19 | 13 |
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 | 12 |
Cholera . | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Total | 130 | 79 | 93 | 70 | 117 | 80 | 109 | 135 | 126 | 100 | 81 | 105 | 88 | 88 | 119 | 136 | 90 | 102 | 71 | 45 | 75 | 76 | 50 |
During the 22 years, 1855—76, inclusive, the deaths from Zymotics were 2,049, being an average yearly mortality of 90.3, in population estimated at 33,500. The mortality from Zymotics in the year 1877 was 50. The Table on the page which follows shows the Zymotic and some other deaths in each quarter of the year 1877. |