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 of the Limehouse District (comprising the Parishes of Limehouse, Shadwell, and Wapping, and the Hamlet of Ratcliff) for the year 1899
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TABLE VI. — 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 Limehouse District; classified according to D iseases , A ges and L ocalities.
Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities | Population at all Ages. | Registered Birlhs. | Aged under 5 or over 5. | 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 Hospitals. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Last Census. | Estimated to middle of 1899. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |||
Small Pox | Scarlatina | Diphtheria | Membranous Croup | Fevkhs. | Cholera | Erysipelas | Small Pox | Scarlatina | Diphtheria | Membranons Croup | fevers | Cholera | Erysipelas | |||||||||||||
Typhus | Ent< l ie or Typhoid | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | Typhus | Enteric or Typhoid | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | |||||||||||||||||
(a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Limehouse | 32917 | 33390 | 1144 | Under 5 5 upwds. | .. | 35 | 32 | .. | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 23 | 24 | .. | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
*1 | 61 | 36 | .. | .. | 73 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 32 | 1 | 44 | 28 | .. | .. | 62 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 | |||||
Ratcliff | 14954 | 14966 | 463 | Under 5 5 upwds. | 15 | 20 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 15 | i | . . | . . | 2 | ||||||||||||
.. | 22 | 27 | .. | .. | 23 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 18 | .. | 16 | 22 | .. | .. | 18 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | |||||
Shadwell and Wapping | 10434 | 10451 | 326 | Under 5 5 upwds. | .. | 6 | 5 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 6 | 5 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
*1 | 22 | 5 | .. | .. | 29 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 19 | 1 | 16 | 5 | .. | .. | 24 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | |||||
Totals | 58305 | 58807 | 1933 | Under 5 5 upwds. | .. | 56 | 57 | 2 | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 9 | .. | 42 | 44 | 2 | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
*2 | 105 | 68 | .. | .. | 125 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 69 | 2 | 76 | 55 | .. | .. | 104 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 13 |
* These two did not contract the Disease in the District, hut in the Eastern Fever Hospital, where they had been for over a month, and were recovering from Scarlet Fever for which they had been removed.