[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:
1890
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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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    13 George's Hospital from Nephritis (Kidney disease) after Scarlet Fever. There were, however, 3 deaths of our Parishioners from this disease in Public Institutions outside the Parish. Diphtheria caused 36 deaths, being 16 less than in 1883, but nearly 11 above the annual average for the previous 10 years. Among the 36 deaths registered in the Parish, there were, however, 16 deaths of non-parishioners, leaving 20 deaths of Parishioners from this disease. Of these, moreover, one was that of a child who contracted the disease from a case imported into the Parish, another was described as Croup with Bronchitis, and a third was that of a man, 56 years of age, who died from Pneumonia with a diphtheritic sore throat. On the other hand there were 2 deaths from this disease of Parishioners in Public Institutions outside the Parish. I must remark that Diphtheria is still exceedingly prevalent in London, and seems to be taking a hold of London and of some of our great towns, as mentioned in my last report, for reasons that have not yet been explained. Thus in the 28 largest English towns, including London, the diphtheria death-rate in 1889 was half as high again as the death-rate for the previous 10 years. In Plymouth and Manchester it was nearly 4 times as high, in Bolton it was nearly 5 times as high, in Salford it was 6 times as high, and in Newcastle twice as high, as in the previous 10 years. Whooping Cough caused 31 deaths, as against 28 in 1888, and an average of 33.5 during the previous 10 years. Typhus Fever was not. so far as I am aware, present in the parish during the year, and only one death from it has been recorded in the parish since 1881.
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