Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1899
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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-pox | Nil. | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Scarlatina | 91 | ii | 42 | 13 | 5 | 20 | — |
Diphtheria | 59 | 9 | 42 | 1 | 5 | 2 | — |
Membranous Croup | Nil. | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Typhus Fever | Nil. | — | — | - | — | — | — |
Enteric „ | 88 | 57 | 13 | 1 | 14 | 3 | — |
Continued „ | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
Relapsing „ | Nil. | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Puerperal „ | Nil. | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Cholera | Nil. | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Erysipelas | 24 | 14 | — | — | 6 | 4 | — |
Total—All causes | 263 | 92 | 97 | 15 | 30 | 29 | Nil. |