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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

City of London 1898

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1898

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Table: NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. The following Table gives the number and nature of the cases of infectious disease notified to me by medical practitioners under Sections 55 and 56 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, during 1898, and also indicates where the patients were treated :—

NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. The following Table gives the number and nature of the cases of infectious disease notified to me by medical practitioners under Sections 55 and 56 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, during 1898, and also indicates where the patients were treated :—

NATURE OF DISEASE.Number of Certificates received.Treated at Home.Removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals for treatment.Removed to the London Fever Hospital for treatment.Treated at other Hospitals and Infirmaries.Duplicate Certificates received.Diagnosis incorrect.
Small-pox——————1
Scarlatina761048135211
Diphtheria425255742
Membranous Croup21——1——
Typhus Fever———————
Enteric „1963—105—
Continued „———————
Relapsing „———————
Puerperal „–––––––
Cholera—–––––—
Erysipelas1911—172—
Total—All causes15833761930324