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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

Hampstead 1893

Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of St. John, Hampstead for the year 1893

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Table: Table No. I. 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 Hampstead ; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Table No. I. 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 Hampstead ; 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 AgesRegistered Births.Aged under 5or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Localitycoming to the knowledge of theMedical Officer of HealthNumber of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the Several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
Census, 1891.Estimated to middle of 1893.12345678910111234567891011
Smallpox. |Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera. |Erysipelas. |Smallpox. |Scarlatina.Diphtheria. |Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Rlapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(bto(d)(e)
Hampstead.........Under 51117334...2............11...3413........................
5upwds.93791174...313...7...55816741......61............
Campden Buildings, Holly Bush Yale.........Under 5......1..............................1........................
5upwds.131........................131........................
Hampstead Workhouse, New End.........Under 5......3..............................1........................
5 upwds122......1............7112......1...............
New Buildings, Flask Walk.........Under 5..................................................................
5upwds....11...........................11........................
Wells Buildings, Heath Street.........Under 5...1..............................1...........................
5upwds....2........................1...2...........................
Trewint, Haverstock Hill.........Under 5..................................................................
5 upwds....1........................1...1........................1
Soldiers' Daughters' Home, Rosslyn Hill.........Under 5..................................................................
5 upwds....2............................................................
Hampstead Home Hospital, Parliament Hill R..........Under 5..................................................................
5 upwds....2..............................2...........................
Field Lane School, Church Row.........Under 5...1..............................1...........................
5 upwds....1..............................1...........................
Totals68425726081495Under 51119374...2............11...3615........................
5 upwds.113931214...323...7...641017845......71.........1