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Holborn 1899

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1899

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Table: TABLE II. (as required by the Local Government Board). TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1899, in the Holborn (London, W.C.) District; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

TABLE II. (as required by the Local Government Board).

TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1899, in the Holborn (London, W.C.) District; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all Ages.Registered Births.Aged under 5or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming tothe knowledge of the medical officer of health.Number of such Cases removed from their Homes inthe several localities for treatment in hospital.
Census 1896.Estimated to middle of 1899.1234567891011121312345678910111213
Smallpox.Scarlatina.|Diphtheria.|Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
Typhus.Enteric orTyphoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric orTyphoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
St. George the Martyr30,54029,210718Under 5 5 upwds....2011......2............1.........2010......2.....................
...3922......17............22.........3121......141.........8......
Under 5 5 upwds....1610.....................2.........129.....................1......
St. Andrew Eastern...4113.......11......1...17.........36101...11............7......
Glasshouse Yard66437Under 5 5 upwds...............................................................................
......1.....................1............1.....................1......
Under 5 5 upwds...............................................................................
Children's Hospital............5....................................5..............................
Under 5 5 upwds...........................................3.................................
London Homoeopathic Hospital....................................................................................
National Homoeopathic Hospital......Under 5 5 upwds...............................................................................
..............................................................................
Italian Hospital......Under 5 5 upwds...............................................................................
..............................................................................
St. John and Elizabeth Hospital.........Under 5 5 upwds...............................................................................
..............................................................................
Alexandra Hospital.........Under 5 5 upwds...............................................................................
..............................................................................
Orthopaedic Hospital......Under 5 5 upwds...............................................................................
...1....................................1.................................
St. Marylebone Workhouse......Under 5 5 upwds...............................................................................
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Totals31,20829,853725Under 5 5 upwds....3621......2............3.........3219......2............1......
...81411...302...1...40.........71371...271.........16......