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 Deaths from Zymotic Disease for the last 24 Years.
1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | |
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Small Pox | 3 | 5 | .. | .. | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 21 | .. | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | .. | 3 | 18 | 6 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Measles | 7 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 38 | 8 | 17 | 9 | 24 | 29 | 17 | 19 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 24 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 8 | 19 |
Scarlet Feverand Dipth. | 27 | 16 | 13 | 29 | 31 | 16 | 32 | 66 | 31 | 13 | 20 | 30 | 9 | 31 | 39 | 75 | 14 | 6 | .. | 13 | 19 | 14 | 7 | 20 |
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 | 19 |
Diarrhœa | 11 | 15 | 31 | 12 | 20 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 29 | 11 | 21 | 19 | 13 | 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 | 7 | 12 | 9 |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Total | 130 | 79 | 93 | 70 | 121 | 80 | 109 | 135 | 126 | 100 | 81 | 105 | 88 | 88 | 119 | 136 | 90 | 102 | 77 | 45 | 75 | 76 | 50 | 89 |
During the 23 years, 1855—77, inclusive, the deaths from Zymotics were 2,099, being an average yearly mortality of 91.26, in a
population estimated at 33,500. The mortality from Zymotics in the year 1878 was 89.
The Table on the page which follows shows the Zymotic and some other deaths in each quarter of the year 1878.