[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George].

Hanover Square (London, England). Parish. Vestry.

Date:: [1868]

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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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10 from various causes, which shows, I think, that a complete system of registration of sickness is much needed. Yet the information now obtained is most valuable for discovering the foci whence zymotic disease originates, and enabling the Sanitary Officers to apply cleansing and disinfectants or to abate nuisancas wherever and whenever necessary. It should be stated that most of the patients who suffered from zymotic disease at St. George's Hospital were non-parishioners; and that those among the poor who are attended by the Medical Officers of the Dispensaries, and by the Parochial Surgeons, more strictly belonged to our parish. My best thanks are due to Drs. W. Griffith, Webb, Mr. C. P. Ward, and Mr. E. Jay, for filling up some of the Returns. In the Hanover and Mayfair Sub-Districts, the total number of cases treated by the Parochial Medical Officers, and at the Dispensary, Mount-street, and in the Sick Wards of the Mount-street Workhouse, has been 37,073. Amongst them were 9 cases of small-pox, 5 of chicken-pox, *27 of measles, 54 of scarlet fever, 43 of whooping-cough, 101 of diarrhoea, 2 of erysipelas, 25 of fever, 2 of diphtheria, 1 of dysentery, 1 of ague, 487 of bronchitis, and 3 of pneumonia. Vaccination in the Hanover and May-fair Sub-Districts. The following Table shows the number of persons vacci nated by Mr. Jay :— Under 1 year. Above. Total. 1st Quarter . 60 . . . 15 . . . 75 2nd „ . 49 . . . 17 . . . 66 3rd „ . 31 . . . 7 . . . 38 4th „ . 54 . . . 4 . . . 58 237 In these 237, there was but 1 unsuccessful vaccination.

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