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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
Strand (Westminster) 1893
Thirty-eighth annual report on the sanitary condition of the Strand District, London
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Local Government Board. Form B. TABLE II
Table of 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 STRAND, 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 ok Health. | n umber of such cases removed from their homes in thb several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Census 1891. | Estimated to middle of 1893. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |||||
| Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | TOTALS. | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | totals. | |||||||||||||
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SUB-DISTRICTS— St. Anne, Soho | 320 | Under 5 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 24 | 1 | 7 | 6 | - | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 12 | 45 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 95 | 12 | 28 | 8 | 4 | 52 | ||||||||||||||||
| St. Mart | 108 | Under 5 | — | 8 | 11 | - | 19 | - | 4 | 9 | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 7 | 19 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 41 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 29 | |||||||||||||||||
| St. Clement | 25,919 | 25,233 | 161 | Under 5 | — | 16 | 11 | 2 | 29 | 12 | 9 | - | 21 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 10 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 54 | 10 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 41 | |||||||||||||||||
| St. Anne's Workhouse, Poland Street | 10 | Under 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strand Union Workhouse, Edmonton | 8 | Under 5 | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Do. do. Casual Wards, Bear Yard | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| King's College Hospital | Under 5 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 16 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. Peter's Hospital | Under 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, Soho Square | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 25,919 | 25,233 | 607 | Under 5 | 1 | 40 | 31 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 74 | 1 | 23 | 25 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 49 |
| 5 upwds | 29 | 103 | 48 | - | - | 11 | - | - | 1 | - | 20 | 212 | 29 | 69 | 28 | - | - | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | 135 | ||||