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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 1896

Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of St. John, Hampstead for the year 1896

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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 1896, in the Hampstead Sanitary District; 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 1896, in the Hampstead 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 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 fbom their Homes in the Several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
Census, 1896.Estimated to middle of 1896.12345678910111234567891011
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.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
Hampstead Workhouse.........Under 5...1........................1...1...........................
5upwds................1............2.................................
Field Lane Boys' School.........Under 5..................................................................
5upwds....82...........................8...........................
St. Peter's Home.........Under 5...3..............................3...........................
5upwds....5..............................5...........................
Hampstead.........Under 5...71413...2............3...4117........................
5upwds....2031461...522...7...45...11456......101............
Totals75449762161462Under 5...75413...2............4...4517........................
5upwds....2161481...532...7...47...12756......101............