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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

Marylebone 1893

The sanitary chronicles of the Parish of St. Marylebone being the annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1893

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13
SCARLET FEVER, 1893, AND HOSPITAL
ACCOMMODATION.
Early in May, 1893, it was evident that the admissions
of scarlet fever patients into the Asylums Board Hospitals
had been, from January of the same year, almost double the
number admitted in 1892, as shown by the following return
submitted to the Sanitary Committee at their meeting,
May 17th:—

Table: Table showing the admissions of Scarlet Fever patients into the Board's Hospitals, during the first 19 weeks of each of the years, 1892 and 1893.

Table showing the admissions of Scarlet Fever patients into the Board's Hospitals, during the first 19 weeks of each of the years, 1892 and 1893.

1892.1893.
Week ended.Admissions.Week ended.Admissions.
January 9100January 7193
„ 1687„ 14229
„ 23104„ 21228
„ 3091„ 28242
February 594February 4240
„ 13110„ 11242
„ 2077„ 18206
„ 2775„ 25166
March 587March 4194
„ 12109„ 11180
„ 19140„ 18168
„ 26122„ 25211
April 2131April 1226
„ 9157„ 8182
„ 16140„ 15189
„ 26208„ 22258
„ 30174„ 29248
May 7189May 6264
„ 14211„ 13335
2,4064,201

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With this increase of fever there was at the same time
a decrease of accommodation; for, although the Board
opened the Tottenham hospital in 1892, the year 1893 began
with 1,179 beds less than in 1892, the main cause of the
decrease being the use of Gore Farm for smallpox cases,