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Holborn 1896
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1896
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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 1896, 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. (a.) | Population at all Ages. | New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the medical officer of health. | Number of such Cases removed from their Homes in the several localities for treatment in isolation hosptl. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Census 1891. (b) | Estimated to middle (c.) of 1896. | (d.)Registered Births. | Aged under 5 or over 5. (e) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||
| Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | |||||||||||||||||
| Typhus,. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| St. George the Martyr | Under 5 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 50 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 27 | 41 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| St. Andrew Eastern | Under 5 | 1 | 19 | 12 | 1 | 17 | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 32 | 20 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 29 | 16 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 14 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Glasshouse Yard | Under 5 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Totals | Under 5 | 1 | 35 | 28 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 24 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 82 | 39 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 2 | 60 | 70 | 31 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 16 | ||||||||||||||||