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Plumstead 1893
Annual report 1893-94
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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 Year 1893, in the Lee and Kidbrook Sanitary District of Plumstead Board of Works, 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 1893. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |||
| Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | |||||||||||||
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | Typhus | Enteric or Typhoid | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | |||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| LEE | 23541 | 23700 | 332 | Under 5 | 0 | 19 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | l | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 upwds. | 4 | 63 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 31 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| kidbrook | 2100 | 2150 | 13 | Under 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| TOTALS | 25641 | 25850 | 345 | Under 5 | 0 | 19 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 upwds. | 4 | 67 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 34 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
State here whether "Notification of Infectious Disease "is compulsory in the District—Yes. Since when?—November 1st, 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.