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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
Strand (Westminster) 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Strand]
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The subjoined numbers have also to be taken Into account in judging of the above records of mortality.
| Deaths occurring outside the district among persons belonging thereto | 199 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 101 | 58 | Under 5 | — | 7 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | — | 3 | 1 | 10 | 26 | |
| 5 upwds | 2 | 2 | - | — | — | — | - | — | - | — | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 36 | 35 | 8 | 6 | 81 | 173 | ||||||||
| Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging there to | 260 | 17 | 20 | 12 | 29 | 162 | 20 | Under 5 | - | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | - | 1 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 37 |
| 5 upwds | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 17 | 19 | 35 | 18 | 12 | 223 |
Table of POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1895, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of STRAND, 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 Ages. | Registered Births. | 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 Hospital | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Census 1891. | Estimated to middle of 1895. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | B | 7 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||||
| Smallpox | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | TOTALS. | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup | Fevers | Cholera | Erysipelas. | TOTALS. | |||||||||||||
| j Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SUB - DISTRICTS- | 125,824 | 24,800 | Under 5 | - | 24 | 8 | - | - | 1 | 33 | - | 16 | 4 | — | - | 20 | ||||||||||||
| St. Anne, Soho | 310 | 5 upwds | 3 | 48 | 13 | 9 | — | — | 10 | 83 | 31 | 35 | 9 | 6 | — | 2 | 55 | |||||||||||
| Strand | 257 | Under 5 | - | 9 | 5 | 1 | 15 | — | 8 | 5 | — | 13 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 2 | 33 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 65 | 2 | 29 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 47 | ||||||||||||||||
| Westminster Workhouse, Poland Street | 14 | Under 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwdS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strand Union Workhouse, Edmonton | Under 5 | - | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | 5 upwds | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Do. do. Casual Wards, Bear Yard | Under 5 | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 45 | 5 upwds | - | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| King's College Hospital | Under 5 | — | — | - | - | - | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. Peter's Hospital | Under 5 | - | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 25,824 | 24,800 | 632 | Under 5 | - | 33 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 48 | - | 24 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 33 | |
| 5 upwds | 5 | 83 | 23 | — | — | 24 | — | — | — | — | 15 | 150 | 5 | 66 | 14 | — | — | 15 | — | — | — | — | 4 | 104 | ||||