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 1896
[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 | - | - | - | 1 | |||
| Unvaccinated | 2 | — | 1 | |||||
| No Statement | ||||||||
| Measles | 24 | 86 | 3 | |||||
| Scarlet Fever | 6 | 29 | 17 | 3 | ||||
| Typhus | ||||||||
| Relapsing Fever | ||||||||
| Influenza | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 1 | |
| Whooping Cough | 75 | 69 | 5 | |||||
| Diphtheria | 13 | 108 | 70 | 3 | ||||
| Simple Continued Fever | ||||||||
| Enteric Fever | 2 | 9 | 22 | 24 | 8 | |||
| Cholera and Choleraic Diarrhoea | 1 | - | - | 1 | ||||
| Diarrhoea, Dysentery | 262 | 64 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 9 | ||
| Remittent Fever | ||||||||
| Hydrophobia | ||||||||
| Glanders | ||||||||
| Cowpox and effects of Vaccination | ||||||||
| Venereal Affections | 13 | — | 1 | |||||
| Erysipelas | 5 | 2 | — | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Pyæmia and Septicaemia | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Puerperal Fever | — | - | - | 6 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Other Zymotic Diseases | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Thrush | 1 | |||||||
| Worms and other Parasitic Diseases | ||||||||
| Starvation, want of Breast Milk | 44 | |||||||
| Alcoholism | — | - | — | 6 | 7 | 1 | ||
| Rheumatic Fever | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Rheumatism | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Gout | — | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | ||