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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

Hanover Square 1893

Medical Officer's report for the year ended 30th December, 1893

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Table: (B) TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year, 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. George's, Hanover Square, classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

(B) TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year, 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. George's, Hanover Square, classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Localities. (a)Population at all Ages.Registered Births.Ages. (e)New Oases of Sickness in each locality.Number of such cases removed from home to hospital.
123456791011Totals.1234567891011Totals.
Census 1891.Estimated to Middle of 1893.*Smallpox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fever Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
Typhus.Enteric (or Typhoid).Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric (or Typhoid).Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(b)(c)(d)
Mayfair23,73123,291254Under 5...14.....................115...9...........................9
5 upwards77812......21...1...131336494......6............368
Belgravia54,62855,5921,242Under 5...115344...2.........4160...7323.....................197
5 upwards14357653...39...22515331023445......22............4315
St. George's Infirmary (Fulham Road).........Under 5...........................11....................................
5 upwards.....................................................................
Union Workhouse.........Under 5.....................................................................
5 upwards...........................222...........................24
St. George's Hospital..........Under 5.................................•••.................................
5 upwards...3.....................36...31......1...............5
Belgrave Children's Hospital.........Under 5...........................11....................................
5 upwards.....................................................................
Orthopaedic Hospital Hanover Square).........Under 5.....................................................................
5 upwards.....................................................................
Totals......1,496Under 5...129344...2.........7177...8223.....................1106
5 upwards21438773...60...32696741828650......29............9392

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"Notification of Infectious Disease" has been compulsory in the District since October 31st, 1889. The Isolation Hospitals are the
Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and occasionally the London Fever Hospital and the London Small-Pox Hospital,