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Chelsea 1900

Annual report for 1900 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: TABLE IX.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1900.

TABLE IX.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1900.

Notifiable Disease.Cases notified in Whole District.Total Casesnotified in eachLocality.No. of Cases removed to Hospitalfrom kach locality.
At all Ages.At Ages+—Years.Chelsea North.Chelsea South.Kensal Town.Chelsea North.Chelsea South.Kensal Town.Chelsea.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards.
Small-pox2......11..11..11..2
Cholera1........1....1..........
Diphtheria17934410219ii995129774225144
Membranous Croup2..11..........2-•..11
Erysipelas724266459262026112
Scarlet Fever2328651232214..1137247945440188
Typhus Fever1......1....1............
Enteric Fever79..4242031..,21164212103355
Relapsing Fever..........................
Continued Fever3........3....12123
Puerperal Fever8........8..4311, ,1
Plague............................
Totals57915116256691149265165149186108102396

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Notes.—The localities adopted for this Table should be the same as those in Tables VIII. and X.
State the name of the isolation hospital, if any, used by the sick of the district. Mark (h)
the locality in which it is situated, or if not within the district, state where it is situated,
and in what district.
*This space may be used for record of other disease the notification (compulsory or voluntary)
of which is in force in the district.
+These age columns for notification should be filled up in all cases where the Medical Officer
of Health, by inquiry or otherwise, has obtained the necessary information.