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Hammersmith 1897
Twelfth annual report to 25th March, 1898...
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K211 TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1897, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Hammersmith; classified (B) according to Diseases, Ages and 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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| Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities. (See Note 2 on back of sheet.) | Census 1896. | Estimated to middle of 1897. | l | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||
| Small pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Small-pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | |||||||||||||
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | Typhus. | Enter'c or Typhoid. | continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| North District, Wards 4, 5 & 6 | 43,382 | 44,241 | Under 5 | 0 | 35 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 106 | 41 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 58 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Centre District, Wards 2 & 3 | 42,293 | 43,130 | 1204 | Under 5 | 0 | 37 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 111 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 45 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| South District, Ward 1 | 15,929 | 16,244 | 500 | Under 5 | 0 | 26 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 73 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 46 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| West London Hospital | 134 | 141 | 0 | Under 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Nazareth House | 584 | 608 | 0 | Under 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Convent of|the Good Shepherd | 246 | 245 | 0 | Under 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| St. Mary's Orphanage | 64 | 67 | 0 | Under 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| St. Joseph's School | 188 | 194 | 0 | U nde.r 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Kensington and Chelsea District School | 123 | 131 | 0 | Under 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 1,256 | 1,015 | 13 | Under 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | l | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Under 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 104,199 | 106,016 | 3139 | Under 5 | 0 | 102 | 55 | 5 | 0 | l | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 56 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 5 upwds. | 0 | 297 | 97 | 1 | 0 | 45 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 88 | 0 | 156 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Note. 5.—State here whether "Notification of Infectious Disease" is compulsory in the District—Yes. Since when? October 30th, 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 situate; and if not within the District, state
where it is situated—Western District Hospital at Fulham and occasionally other Hospitals under the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and exceptionally the London Fever Hospital
at Islington,