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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 Pancras 1896

Forty-first annual report of the Medical Officer of Health on the vital and sanitary condition of the Borough of Saint Pancras, London

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Table: ISOLATION.The cases of Notifiable Infectious Diseases removed to hospital, and the Sub-Districts whence they were removed, are recorded in the following table : —

ISOLATION.

The cases of Notifiable Infectious Diseases removed to hospital, and the Sub-Districts whence they were removed, are recorded in the following table : —

Diseases.Regent's Park.Tottenham Court.Gray's Inn Lane.Somers Town.Camden Town.Kentish Town.Totals.
Small-pox....ll..35
Cholera..............
Diphtheria and Mem
branous Croup403736581899288
Erysipelas467841039
Scarlatina and Scarlet
Fever1006413513651241727
Typhus Fever..............
Typhoid or Enteric Fever17111618439105
Ralapsing Fever..............
Continued Fever..............
Puerperal Fever21......47
Totals163119195221773961171

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HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.
The following statement is quoted from Dr. Orme Dudfield's Report,
from information supplied to him by the Clerk to Metropolitan Asylums
Board, as to the hospital accommodation present and prospective:—

Table: "For Fever and Diphtheria patientsthe Board's existing accommodation is as follows: —

"For Fever and Diphtheria patientsthe Board's existing accommodation is as follows: —

Acute Cases—Beds.
Eastern Hospital410
North-Eastern Hospital400
North-Western Hospital456
Western Hospital390
South-Western Hospital370
Fountain Hospital426
South-Eastern Hospital431
Brook Hospital576
—3159
Convalescent Cases—
Northern Hospital955
Gore Farm Hospital752
(Built for Small-pox Convalescents)1707
5166*

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* " N.B.—These figures include the 'emergency beds,' placed in various hospitals during the recent
pressure for accommodation."