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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
Mile End 1894
Annual report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the District for the year 1894
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RETURN AS REQUIRED BY HE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD. Table of Population, Births, and of new Cases of Infections Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1894, the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town 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 Ages. | Registered Births. | Aged under 5 oroyer 5. | New Oases ok Sickness each Locality coming to theKnowledge 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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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |||||
| Census 1891. | Estimated to middle oi 1894. | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | MembranousCroun. | FEVERS. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | FEVERS. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | |||||||||||
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mile End Old Town | 107592 | 108242 | 4022 | Under 5 | 4 | 186 | 96 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 4 | 26 | l6 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 33 | 328 | 184 | 2 | 58 | 4 | 121 | 31 | 106 | 31 | 15 | |||||||||||||||
| Mile End Infirmary | Under 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 3 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| London Hospital | Under 5 | 21 | 31 | 1 | 14 | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 1 | 30 | 24 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 18 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Children's Hospital,Shadwell | Under 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Smith Grove Workhouse | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 1 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tower HamletsDispensary | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. Bartholomew'sHospital | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Totals | Under 5 | 4 | 214 | 135 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 4 | 43 | 42 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 38 | 375 | 217 | 2 | 77 | 5 | 149 | 36 | 137 | 58 | 21 | |||||||||||||||