Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition, vital statistics, &c., of the Parish of St. Luke, Middlesex for the year 1896
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Admissions and deaths at the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals, the Highgate Smallpox Hospital, and the London Fever Hospital of persons suffering from Smallpox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, and Enteric Fever, 1887-1896:—
Years. | Smallpox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria | Enteric Fever. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Admissions. | Deaths. | Admissions. | Deaths. | Admissions. | Deaths. | Admissions. | Deaths. | |
1887 | 59 | 3 | 6662 | 516 | 18 | 4 | 458 | 62 |
1888 | 66 | 8 | 4881 | 514 | 111 | 50 | 461 | 73 |
1889 | 7 | — | 4837 | 370 | 740 | 278 | 311 | 42 |
1890 | 25 | 4 | 6991 | 521 | 965 | 317 | 518 | 95 |
1891 | 67 | 8 | 5601 | 360 | 1330 | 399 | 759 | 108 |
1892 | 366 | 38 | 13686 | 850 | 2021 | 584 | 43° | 65 |
1893 | 2546 | 190 | 15312 | 918 | 2853 | 866 | 544 | no |
1894 | 1226 | 108 | 11892 | 725 | 3691 | 104I | 538 | 96 |
1895 | 971 | 65 | 11800 | 601 | 3688 | 824 | 661 | II9 |
1896 | 211 | 8 | 16627 | 674 | 4580 | 956 | 600 | 96 |