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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
St Olave 1893
Annual report on the sanitary condition of the District for the year 1893
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TABLE.— In accordance with the Requirements of the Local Government Board.
TABLE OP 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 St. Olave 's, 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 from their houses in the several localities, for treatment in Isolation Hospitals. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Census 1891 | Estimated to middle of 1893. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |||
| Small-pox | Scarlatina | Diphtheria | Membranous Croup | FEVERS. | Cholera | Erysipelas | Small-pox | 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| District. | 12,691 | 12,861 | 412 | Under 5 | ... | 26 | 9 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 10 | 67 | 15 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 4 | ... | ... |
| 5 upwds. | 10 | 47 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Guy's Hospital | Under 5 | ... | 2 | 3 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 3 | ... | ... | 1 | 37 | 15 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 17 | ... | ... | |||
| 5 upwds. | 1 | 35 | 12 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 14 | ... | ... | |||||||||||||||||
| Parish Street Workhouse (All imported cases.) | Under 5 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 3 | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |||
| 5 upwds. | 1 | 2 | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |||||||||||||||||
| Totals | Under 5 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |||
| 5 upwds. | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |||||||||||||||||