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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
Westminster 1896
Annual report upon the public health & sanitary condition of the united Parishes of St. Margaret & St. John, Westminster for the year 1896
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(B) TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASE OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of
the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1896, in the Sanitary Districts of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminister,
classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
Localities.
Population at
all Ages.
Registered
Births.
Ages.
New Cases of Sickness in Each Locality.
Totals
Number of such cases removed from home to hospitals.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Totals.
Census
1891.
Estimated
to
Middle of
1896.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Smallpox.
Scarlatina.
Diphtheria.
Membranous
Croup.
Fevers.
Cholera.
Erysipelas.
Smallpox.
Scarlatina.
Diphtheria.
Membranous
Croup.
Fevers.
Fevers.
Cholera.
Erysipelas.
Typhus.
Enteric (or
Typhoid).
Continued.
Relapsing.
Puerperal.
Typhus.
Enteric (or
Typhoid).
Continued.
Relapsing.
Puerperal.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
ST. MARGARET.
Westminster Hospital
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Under 5
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5 upwards
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3
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3
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3
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3
Convent
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Under 5
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5 upwards
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3
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3
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3
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...
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3
Rest of Parish
...
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Under 5
...
14
9
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...
...
...
...
...
...
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23
...
13
9
...
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22
5 upwards
1
42
24
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12
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1
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22
102
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36
17
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8
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...
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...
8
69
Total
21,471
21,742
335
Under 5
...
14
9
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...
...
...
...
...
...
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23
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13
9
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22
5 upwards
1
48
24
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12
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1
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22
108
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42
17
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8
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8
75
ST. JOHN.
Grosvenor Hospital
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Under 5
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5 upwards
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1
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1
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1
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1
Station Hospital
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Under 5
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5 upwards
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2
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2
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2
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2
Rest of Parish
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Under 5
1
39
35
2
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2
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2
81
1
34
34
1
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2
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72
5 upwards
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117
38
1
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19
1
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52
228
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107
34
1
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15
1
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7
165
Total
34,106
31,492
887
Under 5
1
39
35
2
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2
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2
81
1
34
34
1
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2
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72
5 upwards
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120
38
1
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19
1
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52
231
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110
34
1
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15
1
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"Notification of Infectious Disease " has been compulsory in the District since
Metropolitan Asylums Board, and occasionally the London
October 31st, 1889. The Isolation Hospitals are the Hospitals of the
Fever Hospital and the London Small Pox Hospital.