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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 1898

Annual report for 1898 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 to the Medical Officer of Health during the Year 1898, in the Chelsea Metropolitan Sanitary District ; classified according to diseases, ages, and localities.

TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge to the Medical Officer of Health during the Year 1898, in the Chelsea Metropolitan Sanitary District ; 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 ACbS.Registered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Casks of Sickness in each Locality, coming tothe knowledge of the medical officer of health.Number of such Cases Removkd from their Homes inthe several localities for treatment in isolationHospital.
Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smoll-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
Last Census.Estimatedto middle of 1898.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Knteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
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Chelsea Home District75,19675,5261761Under 5 5 upwds....65471...11.........4.........4339......1.....................
...19396......39......2...53.........14358......21.....................
Public Institutions:—
Chelsea Infirmary.........Under 5 5 upwds....3.....................1.........2.................................
...2........................12.............................................
Duke of York's School.........Under 5 5 upwds.......1.....................................................................
...13...............1...................................................
Victoria Hospital.........Under 5 5 upwds.......2.....................................................................
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Chelsea Barracks.........Under 5 5 upwds..............................................................................
...1........................................................................
St. George's Hospital.........Under 5 5 upwds.......2....................................2..............................
...22.................................21..............................
Kensal Town21,45021,300571Under 5 5 upwds....2042.....................3.........1737.....................2......
...4976......16......2...20.........4266......8............3......
Totals96,64696,8262332Under 5 5upwds....88942...11.........8.........6278......1............9......
...248177......55......5...85.........187125......29............3......