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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 Saviour's (Southwark) 1899

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Saviour's]

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Table: Below I append a list of the various causes of death :—

Below I append a list of the various causes of death :—

I. Zymotic Diseases.
(a.)Measles.—St. Saviour 7, Christchurch 12, outlying institutions 221
(b.)Scarlet Fever.St. Saviour 1, outlying institutions 12
(c.)Whooping Cough.—St. Saviour 3, Christchurch 4, outlying institutions 310
(d.)Typhoid Fever.—St. Saviour 11
(e.)Diarrhœa.—St. Saviour 9, Christchurch 5, outlying institutions 519
(f.)Septic.—Outlying institutions 77
(g.)Diphtheria.—St. Saviour 1, outlying institutions1415
—75
II. Dietetic Diseases.
In outlying institution 11
III. Constitutional Diseases.
(a.)Cancer.—St. Saviour 6, Christchurch 2, outlying institutions 1018
(b.)Tabes Mesentcrica. — St. Saviour 7, Christchurch 310
(c.)Tubercular Meningitis.—St. Saviour 4, Christchurch 5, outlying institutions 312
(d.)Phthisis.—St. Saviour 12, Christchurch 22, outlying institutions 4781
(e.)General Tuberculosis.—Christchurch 2, outlying institutions 57
(f)Other Constitutional Diseases.—St. Saviour 2, Christchurch 4, outlying institutions 511
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