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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Giles (Camden) 1896
Annual report for the year ending 25th March 1897
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(B.)—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 Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. Giles, 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 5 or over 5. | New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge op the medical officer of health. | Number op such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Census, 1891. | Estimated to middle of 1896. | 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 | |||
| Small-pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | - | - | Small-pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | - | - | |||||||||||||
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| (a). | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. George, Bloomsbury | 16,695 | 16,110 | 300 | under 5 | - | 19 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 16 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 upwards | - | 32 | 7 | — | - | 10 | - | — | - | — | 15 | - | - | - | 24 | 5 | - | - | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| St. Giles, North | 9,633 | 9,151 | 221 | under 5 | - | 9 | 5 | 4 | - | — | - | — | - | — | - | - | - | - | 7 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 upwards | — | 33 | 11 | - | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 10 | — | — | - | 29 | 5 | - | - | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| St. Giles, South | 13,450 | 12,976 | 543 | under 5 | - | 32 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | 30 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 upwards | — | 55 | 14 | — | - | 9 | — | — | 1 | — | 16 | - | — | - | 47 | 13 | - | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| *St. Giles Workhouse | - | Av'rage 543 | - | under 5 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 upwards | — | — | 1 | - | - | — | — | — | — | — | 38 | — | — | — | — | 1 | - | - | — | - | — | — | - | 38 | - | - | ||||
| *British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street | - | - | - | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| † French Hospital | About 67 | — | — | under 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Totals | 39,778 | 38,237 | - | under 5 | - | 60 | 23 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | 53 | 21 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 upwards | - | 120 | 33 | - | — | 20 | — | - | 1 | - | 79 | — | — | — | 100 | 24 | — | - | 16 | — | — | — | — | 38 | — | — | ||||
State here whether "Notification of Infectious Disease" is compulsory in the District.— Yes. Since when?— 31st October, 1889. .Besides the above-mentioned
Diseases, insert in the columns with blank headings the names of any that are notifiable in the District, and fill the columns accordingly. State here the name of the
Isolation Hospital used by the sick of the District. Mark (H) the Locality in which such Hospital is situated; and if not within the District, state where it is
situated ?—The Metrofolitan Asylums' Board Hospitals.
*Pofulation included in St. Giles, South. † Pofulation included in St, Giles, North,