London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
West Ham 1893
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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| 0-1 | 1-5 | 5-20 | 20-40 | 40-60 | 60-80 | 80 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | Vaccinated | — | 2 | 5 | 3 | |||
| Unvaccinated | 3 | 10 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| No statement | 4 | 8 | — | |||||
| Measles | 11 | 21 | ||||||
| Scarlet fever | 5 | 37 | 33 | 5 | ||||
| Typhus | — | — | 1 | |||||
| Relapsing fever | ||||||||
| Influenza | 4 | 7 | 17 | 14 | 17 | 1 | ||
| Whooping-cough | 56 | 82 | 10 | 1 | ||||
| Diphtheria | 8 | 70 | 28 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Simple continued fever | — | |||||||
| Enteric fever | — | 36 | 28 | 2 | ||||
| Cholera and choleraic diarrhœa | 2 | — | 2 | |||||
| Diarrhoea, dysentery | 195 | 39 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |||
| Remittent fever | ||||||||
| Hydrophobia | ||||||||
| Glanders | ||||||||
| Cow-pox and effects of vaccination | ||||||||
| Venereal affections | 17 | — | — | 2 | ||||
| Erysipelas | 14 | — | — | 2 | 7 | 4 | ||
| Pyaemia and septicaemia | 2 | — | — | 5 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Puerperal fever | — | —0 | 19 | 2 | ||||
| Other zymotic diseases | ||||||||
| Thrush | ||||||||
| Worms and other parasitic diseases | ||||||||
| Starvation, want of breast milk | 45 | |||||||
| Alcoholism | — | — | — | 4 | 2 | |||
| Rheumatic fever | — | 7 | 12 | 2 | ||||
| Rheumatism | — | — | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Gout | — | — | — | — | 2 | |||
| Rickets | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Cancer | — | — | 1 | 18 | 67 | 45 | 3 | |
| Tabes mesenterica | 61 | 26 | 6 | |||||
| Tubercular meningitis | 8 | 19 | 8 | 1 | ||||
| Phthisis | 1 | 6 | 44 | 153 | 76 | 12 | ||
| Scrofula, tuberculosis | 18 | 22 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Other constitutional diseases | 134 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | ||