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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

Wandsworth 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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Table B.
The following Table (B) classifies the notifications of infectious disease received
during the year under the provisions of Section 54 or the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, together
with information concerning the removal of the infectious sick to Isolation Hospitals.

Table: TABLE(B) TABLE OFPOPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1898, in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sub-District of Streatham; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

TABLE(B)

TABLE OFPOPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1898, in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sub-District of Streatham; 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 agesRegistered BirthsAged 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 Hospital.
Census 1896.Estimated to middle of 189812345678910111234567891011
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Erysipelas.Total.Smallpox.Scarlatina.DiphtheriaMembranous Croup.FeversErysipelas.Total.
TyphusEnteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
STREATHAM54338604591359Under 5...32501...............285...2536.....................61
5 upwds...1551301...29......340358...9890......14............204
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