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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

Chelsea 1896

Annual report for 1896 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 op the Medical Officer of Health during the Year 1896, in the Chelsea Metropolitan Sanitary District ; classifiedaccording to diseases, ages, and localities.

TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge op the Medical Officer of Health during the Year 1896, in the Chelsea Metropolitan Sanitary District ; classifiedaccording 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.
Small.pox. |Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Small.pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
Census, 1896.Estimated to middle of 1896.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
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Chelsea Home District76,19675,2331999Under 5 5 upwds....1001583...2......7.........62981...2.....................
...2882551...571...4...64.........198138......30......1............
Public Institutions......
Chelsea Infirmary.........Under 5 5 upwds....8....................................4.................................
...2.........1............11.........2.........1.....................
Victoria Hpspital.........Under 5 5 upwds.......1.....................................................................
...22.....................1................................................
Duke of York's School.........Under 5 5 upwds..................................................................................
...26........................................................................
Hospital for Women.........Under 5 5 upwds...............................................................................
...............1....................................1.....................
Kensal Town21,45021,433652Under 5 5 upwds....57181..................5.........30111..................1......
...8333......7......2...28.........4713......4...............1......
Totals96,64696,6662651Under 5 5 upwds....1651774...2............12.........961092...2............1......
...4012901...661...6...104.........247151......36......1...1......