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Plumstead 1893
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K2 11. Table of POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of
(B.) the Medical Officer of Health, during the last quarter of the Year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Eltham, classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
| Population at all Ages. | 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. | Census 1891. | Estimated to middle of 1893 | Registered Births. | Aged uuder 5 or over 5. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |
| Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers | Fevers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | Cholera. | Erysipelas | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria | Membranous Croup. | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | ||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| eltham parish | 5082 | 5840 | 34 | Under 5 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| totals | 5682 | 5840 | 34 | Under 5 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
State here whether "Notification of Infectious Disease" is compulsory in the District—Yes. Since when?—September, 1889 Besides the above-mentioned Diseases, insert in the columns
with blank headings the names of any that are notifiable in the District, and fill the columns accordingly. State here the name of the Isolation Hospital used by the sick of the District. Mark (H) the
Locality in which such Hospital is situated; and if not within the District, state where it is situated.—New Cross Fever Hospital.