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Strand (Westminster) 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Strand District, London]
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ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF STRAND DISTRICT
TABLE V.
Cases of Infectious Diseases notified during the year 1900, in the Strand District, and during the months of November and December in the portion added.
| Notifiable Diseases. | Cases notified in the Strand District. | Total Cases notified in each Sub-District. | Number of Cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages-Years | Strand. | St. Anne. | Added portion. | Strand. | St. Anne. | Added portion. | Totals. | ||||||
| 0 to 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 65 | 65 and upwards | |||||||||
| Small-pox | — | |||||||||||||
| Diphtheria | 35 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 27 | 8 | 25 | 33 | |||
| Membranous Croup | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 9 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Fevers— | ||||||||||||||
| Scarlet | 83 | 10 | 39 | 23 | 11 | 21 | 58 | 4 | 19 | 56 | 3 | 78 | ||
| Typhus | — | |||||||||||||
| Enteric | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 | |||
| Continued | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Puerperal | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 140 | 1 | 23 | 49 | 36 | 31 | - | 36 | 99 | 5 | 32 | 87 | 4 | 123 |
Plague.—In the Autumn of 1900, considerable apprehension
arose lest this disease should be imported into this country, and
the Local Government Board issued an order making it compulsorily
notifiable. Arrangements were made in London by the
County Council, for the prompt identification and isolation of any
cases, but fortunately none occurred.
Scarlet Fever.—This disease was less prevalent in London in
the year 1900, than has been the case in any year since 1891.
In the Strand District, however, there were 80 cases notified;