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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
East Ham 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Deaths month by month during 1903-4 from principal Zymotic Diseases.
| Name of Disease. | Jan. | Feb. | March. | April. | May. | June. | July. | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | Totals. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903 | 1904 | 1903 | 1904 | 1903 | 1904 | 1903 | 1904 | 1903 | 1904 | 1903 | 1904 | 1903 | 1904 | 1903 | 1904 | 1903 | 1904 | 1903 | 1904 | 1903 | 1904 | 1903 | 1904 | 1903 | 1904 | |
| Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Scarlet Fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | 3 | 1 | 3 | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 10 |
| Diphtheria | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | .. | 6 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 45 |
| Typhoid Fever | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | 2 | 2 | 3 | .. | 1 | 15 | 14 |
| Measles | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 5 | .. | 4 | 1 | 9 | •• | 1 | .. | 3 | .. | 9 | .. | 3 | 36 | 54 |
| Whooping Cough | 2 | .. | 6 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .. | 3 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | 2 | 38 | 23 |
| Diarrhœa | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 138 | 18 | 20 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | .. | 58 | 189 |
| 11 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 12 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 24 | 19 | 149 | 26 | 26 | 15 | 19 | 8 | 21 | 9 | 19 | 174 | 335 | |