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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Table shewing the Names and Number of Zymotic and
certain other diseases which occurred in each quarter during the year 1877.
First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | Whole Year. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | 1 | . . | 2 | .. | 3 |
Measles | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
Scarlet Fever | .. | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Diphtheria | .. | . . | 2 | . . | 2 |
Whooping Cough | .. | . . | 2 | 5 | 7 |
Typhus Fever | .. | 4 | 1 | . . | 5 |
Typhoid Fever | .. | . . | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Continued Fever | .. | 1 | 1 | . . | 2 |
Diarrhoea | .. | 1 | 11 | 1 | 13 |
Erysipelas | 1 | . . | . . | .. | 1 |
Puerperal Fever | 1 | 1 | 1 | . . | 3 |
Rheumatism | 2 | . . | . . | 2 | 4 |
Syphilis | .. | . . | . . | 1 | 1 |
Croup | . . | . . | . . | 1 | 1 |
Total | 7 | 10 | 26 | 17 | 60 |
Detailed tables of the causes of death for the
year 1877 are appended.
I have the honour to be,
Rev. Sir and Gentlemen,
Your faithful Servant,
JAMES EDMUNDS.
8, Grafton Street, Piccadilly.