Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 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 1898, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Hammersmith; classified (b) according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities. (See Note 2 on back of sheet.) | 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 Oases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Census 1896. | Estimated tomiddle of 1898. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |||
Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Small-pox | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria, | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | |||||||||||||
Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||
(a) | (a) | (c) | (d) | (e) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
North District, Wards'4, 5 & 6 | 43,382 | 44,715 | 1391 | Under 5 | 0 | 64 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
5 upwds. | o | 154 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 88 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Centre District, Wards 2 & 3 | 42,293 | 43,592 | 1159 | Under 5 | 0 | 32 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
5 upwds | 0 | 118 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 72 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
South District, Ward 1 | 15,929 | 16,418 | 465 | Under 5 | 0 | 29 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
5 upwds. | 0 | 54 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 36 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
West London Hospital | 134 | 142 | 1 | Under 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
5 upwds. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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 | 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 | ||||
Convent of the Good Shepherd | 246 | 260 | 0 | under 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | u | 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 | 0 | ||||
St Mary's Orphanage | 64 | 65 | 0 | Under 5 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 0 | ||||
St. Joseph's School | 188 | 0 | under 5 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Kensington and Chelsea District School | 123 | 114 | 0 | Under 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
ft upwds. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
H.M. Prison, Wormwood Scrubs | 1,256 | 1,253 | 10 | Under 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
ft upwds. | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
totals | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 upwds. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
104,199 | 107,352 | 3026 | Under 6 | 0 | 130 | 45 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 86 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
5 upwds. | 0 | 328 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 88 | 0 | 198 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Note.-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 localitv in which such Hospital is situate; and if not within the District, state
where it is situated - Western District Hospital at Fu ham and occasionally other Hospitals under the Metropolitan Asylums Board,and exceptionally the London Fever Hospital
at Islington.