London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report tables

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Holborn 1895

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the half-year ending December, 1895

Published
1896
Author
Bond, William Arthur.
Pages
46
Tables
13

This page requires JavaScript

13 tables in this report

  • Page 4
    The following Table gives further details.
    parish.population.area in acres.inhabited houses.
    1881.1891.1881.1891.
  • Page 6
    London:—Diminution or excess of deaths in 1895 compared with the average annual deaths in 1885-94, corrected for increase of population:—
    Cause of Death.Diminution in 1895.Excess in 1895.
  • Page 7
    Of these, measles caused the same number of deaths as all the others put together, viz., 45 (the number being for the whole year):—
  • Page 8
    The numbers of the separate diseases were:—
    Last half-year.1895.
  • Page 9
    And in Registration London:—
  • Page 17
    1523 articles were disinfected by Messrs. Armheld and Sons, viz.the following:—
  • Page 24
    age of Bodies.
    Up to 10 years of Age.Above 10 years of Age.
  • Page -
    TENEMENTS of not more than 4 rooms in Holborn Sanitary Area, with details as to Population of each group.
    Tenements withNumber of Tenements.Percentage of all Tenements.Total Occupants.Percentage of Population in each group of Tenements.Average Occupants per room.Overcrowding.
    Number of one to four roomed Tenements with more than two Occupants per room.Number of Occupiers of such Tenements.Percentage of Populationin such Tenements.
    1 room2,59332-26,77020.22.611,1.254,50113.44
    2 rooms2,5263149,91529.61.969065,60016.72
    3 rooms1,24615 55,78217.31.552722,1976.56
    4 rooms4765.92,3377.01.23454541.36
    6,84185.024,80474.12,34812,75238.08
  • Page -
    TABLE II. ANALYSIS of the vital and Mortal Statistics of the Sanitary District of Holborn and of Registration London after Distribution of Deaths occurring in Public Institutions1 during the Year 1895.
    Sanitary Areas.Estimated Population. Middle of 1895.Births.Deaths.Annual Rate per 1000 Living.Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases./Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Typhus.Enteric Fever.Simple and Undefined Fev«r.Diarrhoea.Phthisis.Deaths of Children under One Year of Age to 1000 Births.
    Births.Deaths.PrincipalZymoticDiseases.
  • Page -
    TABLE Hr. STATISTICS referring to the Notification and Treatment of Cases of Infectious Disease occurring during the SIX MONTHS ending 28th December, 1895.
    Small-pox.Scarlet Fever and Scarlatina.Diphtheriaand Membranous Croup.Entericand Typhoid Fever.Erysipelas.Typhus Fever.Puerperal Fever.Totals.
  • Page -
    TABLE IV. INFECTIOUS DISEASES RETUKN for 26 weeks, ending 28th December, 1895.
    DATE.2 weeks, 13 July.2 weeks, 27 July.2 weeks, 10 Aug.2 weeks, 24 Aug.2 weeks, 7 Sept.2 weeks, 21 Sept.2 weeks, 5 Oct.2 weeks, 19 Oct.2 weeks, 2 Not.2 weeks, 16 Nov.2 weeks, 30 Nov.2 weeks, 14 Dec.2 weeks, 28 Dec.Total, 1895.Total, 1894.
  • Page -
    Cases of Sickness under the care of the District Medical Officers during the 52 weeks ending December, 1895.
    Names of the Medical Officers.Small Fox.Chicken Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Hooping Cough.Diarrhoea.Continued Fever. (Typhus and Typhoid).Cholera.Erysipelas.Influenza.Puerperal Fever.Carbuncle.Acute Pulmonary Inflammation.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Dysentery.Diphtheria.Delirium Tremens.Insanity.Syphilis.Congenital Syphilis.Lead Poison.Other Diseases.All Diseases.
    Bronchitis and Catarrh.Pleurisy.Pneumonia.
  • Page -
    TABLE VI.
    1895. MONTHS.Mean Reading of the Barometer.Temperature of the Air.Rain.
    Highest by Day.Lowestby Night.Rangein Month.Mean ofall Highest.Mean ofall Lowest.Mean Daily Range.Mean forthe Month.Departure from Average of 124 Years, 1771-1894.Number of Days it Fell.AmountCollected.