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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St James's 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
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Table showing the Names and number of Zymotic and certain
other deaths which occurred in each Quarter of the Year 1889.
First
Quarter.
Second
Quarter.
Third
Quarter.
Fourth
Quarter.
Whole
year.
Small Pox
..
..
..
..
..
Measles
5
10
2
1
18
Scarlet Fever
..
2
1
2
5
Diphtheria
..
..
1
..
1
Whooping Cough
• •
..
..
..
..
Typhus Fever
..
..
..
..
..
Typhoid Fever
..
..
..
3
3
Diarrhoea
..
..
3
4
7
Total
5
12
7
10
34
Continued Fever
..
..
..
..
..
Erysipelas
..
..
..
1
1
Puerperal Fever
.."
..
..
1
L
Kheumatism
..
..
..
..
..
Syphilis
..
..
• •
..
..
Croup
1
..
..
1
2
Total
1
..
..
3
4
Tables of the causes of death and other data for the year 1889
are appended.
I have the honour to remain,
Reverend Sir and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JAMES EDMUNDS.
8, Grafton Street, Piccadilly.