Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the last three-quarters of the year 1894
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Names of 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 svch Cases Removed from their Homf.s in the several locali- tils for Treatment in Isolation Hospital. | |||||||||
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Census 1891. | Estimated to middle of 1894. | Small-pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Fevers. | Erysipelas. | Small-pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Fevers. | ||||
Enteric or Typhoid. | Puerperal | Enteric or Typhoid. | ||||||||||||
(1) Northern Division | Under 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
5 upwds. | 25 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 1 | |||||||
(2) Southern Division | Under 5 | 14 | 11 | |||||||||||
5 upwds. | 2 | 28 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 26 | 11 | 4 | ||||
Public Institutions within the Parish | 5 upwds. | 3 | ||||||||||||
Totals | 3 | 32,908 | 584 | Under 5 | 20 | 13 | 1 | |||||||
5 upwds | 2 | 53 | 29 | 11 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 39 | 12 | 4 |
The " Notification of Infectii us Disease" has been compulsory in the district since October 30th, 1889. Cases have been isolated
at the Homerton Fever Hospital, St. Anne s Fever Hospital (.Tottenham), the London Fever Hospital (Liverpool Road), and
the small-pox Floating Hospitali at mouth of Thames.
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