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St Luke 1896

Report on the sanitary condition, vital statistics, &c., of the Parish of St. Luke, Middlesex for the year 1896

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Table: No. lTable of Population, Births, and of new cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health,during the year 1896, in the St. Luke, Middlesex, Sanitary District; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

No. l

Table of Population, Births, and of new cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health,

during the year 1896, in the St. Luke, Middlesex, Sanitary District; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

Names of Localitiesadopted 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 Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1896.l234567891011121312345678910111213
Small-Pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous CroupFevers.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Small-Pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous CroupFevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.PuerperalTyphus.Enteric or ■ Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)( d )(e)
City Road Sub-Registration District29177298971152Under 5...49331...1............7.........4214......1.....................
5 upwds...143621...261...2...95.........12331......141..................
Whitecross Street Sub -Registration District82787595243Under 5...2513.....................3.........217..............................
5 upwds...2116......4............20.........218......2.....................
Finsbury Sub-Registration District4985403581Under 5...721.................................1..............................
5 upwds...115......71.........9.........115......41..................
St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics.........Under 5..............................................................................
5 upwds..............................1.............................................
City of London Lying-in Hospital......482Under 5..............................................................................
5 upwds..............................................................................
Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest.........Under 5...1....................................1.................................
5 upwds...1....................................1.................................
St. Mark's Hospital for Fistula, &c..........Under 5..............................................................................
5 upwds...1....................................1.................................
Totals42440415271958Under 5...824821............10.........7022......1.....................
5 upwds...17783 _1...372...2...125.........15744......202..................