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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 1899

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1899

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Table: NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUSDISEASE. 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 1899, and also indicates where the patients were treated:—

NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUSDISEASE. 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 1899, 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.Removed to the London Fever Hospital.Treated at other Hospitals and Infirmaries.Duplicate Certificates received.Diagnosis incorrect.
Small-poxNil.——————
Scarlatina91ii4213520—
Diphtheria59942152—
Membranous CroupNil.------
Typhus FeverNil.——-———
Enteric „8857131143—
Continued „11—————
Relapsing „Nil.——————
Puerperal „Nil.——————
CholeraNil.——————
Erysipelas2414——64—
Total—All causes2639297153029Nil.