Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of]
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No. VII.—
| Quartebs Ending. | Violence, Privation, Premature Birth, and Poison. | Tubercular Diseases. | Convulsions and Teething. | Zymotic Diseases. | Pneumonia, Bronch'tis, and As him. | Others, chiefly chronic. | Total. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phthisis. | Tabes and Sciofula. | Hydrocephalus. | Alvine Elux. | Conti lied Fev. r. | Scarlct Fever. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Whor ping Cough,roup, & Diphtheria. | Erysipelas. | |||||||
| Adults. | Children. | |||||||||||||||
| December, 1870 | 43 | 48 | 15 | 24 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 33 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 74 | 126 | 411 | |
| Average of Ten Years | 37 | 81 | 3S | 9 | 34 | 8 | 8 | 27 | 2 | 16 | 28 | .4 | 108 | 186 | 621 | |
| March, 1871 | 30 | 59 | 16 | 8 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 48 | 1 | 23 | o O | 149 | 157 | 543 |
| Average of Ten Years | 41 | 86 | 34 | 13 | 37 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 18 | 5 | 16 | 38 | 3 | 152 | 231 | 705 |
| June, 1871 | 31 | 50 | 9 | 9 | 21 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 26 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 69 | 150 | 407 |
| Average of Ten Years | 34 | 81 | 34 | 15 | 38 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 22 | 40 | 3 | 100 | 173 | 597 |
| September, 1871 | 20 | 52 | 18 | 13 | 27 | 5 | 43 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 32 | 151 | 401 |
| Average of Ten Years | 73 | 43 | 10 | 32 | 17 | 46 | 22 | 25 | 3 | 15 | 25 | 4 | 52 | 175 | 579 | |
| Entire Year | 124 | 209 | 58 | 33 | 96 | 9 | 52 | 33 | 61 | 8S | 19 | 58 | 14 | 324 | 584 | 1,762 |
| Average of Ten Years | 149 | 324 | 149 | 47 | 141 | 29 | 64 | 9S | 94 | 16 | 69 | 131 | 14 | 412 | 765 | 2,502 |