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Chelsea 1893

Annual report for 1893 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Chelsea; classified according to diseases, ages, and localities.

TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Chelsea; classified according to diseases, ages, and localities.

Names ok Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all ages.Registeied Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the medical officer of health.Numbek of such Cases Removed fbom theib Homes in the seveeal Localities foe Tbeatment in Isolation H ospital.
Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membrnnous Croup.Typhus.Ff.vf.es.Cholera, English.Erysipelas.Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Typhus.Fevers.Puerperal.Cholera.Erysipelas.
Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1893.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.
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Chelsea Home District74,48574,8312128Under 5 5 upwds.0114434...5............9......25421..............................
1732(31392561...11130......1715743......17.....................
Chelsea Infirmary.........Under 5 5 upwds....3....................................3.................................
.15.........2......1...10......15.........2.....................
Chelsea "Workhouse.........Under 5 5 upwds....1....................................1.................................
5...........................1......5....................................
Chelsea Barracks.........Under 5 5 upwds....5....................................5.................................
..............................................................................
St. George's Infirmary.........Under 5 5 upwds...11.....................1.........11..............................
...2........................l6.........2.................................
St. George's Workhouse.........Under 5 5upwds...............................1.............................................
...2........................1.........2............
Victoria Hospital.........Under 5 5 upwds....72.....................2.........72..............................
...73......4...............3.........73......4.....................
Duke of York's School.........Under 5 5 upwds.......3....................................3..............................
...72.................................72..............................
Cancer Hospital.........Under 5 5 upwds...............................................................................
...1....................................1.................................
"Women's Hospital.........Under 5 5 upwds...............................................................................
...1....................................1.................................
Royal Hospital.........Under 5 5 upwds....1........................................................................
...3........................................................................
KensalTown21,78723,3757261Under 5 5 upwds....30121...1............6.........118......1.....................
188726......9............27......173512......4.....................
Totals96,27298,2062854Under 5 5 upwds.2162615...6............19......28235......1.....................
41441170271151194...4021760......27.....................