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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

Hampstead 1900

Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Hampstead for the year 1900

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Table: Hospitals, Asylums, and other Institutions situated outside the Borough at which residents died during the year.

Hospitals, Asylums, and other Institutions situated outside the Borough at which residents died during the year.

University Hospital12
St. Mary's „12
Temperance „10
Middlesex „5
St. Bartholomew's Hospital2
King's College „2
Maternity „2
Cancer „2
Children's Hospitals5
Other Hospitals (10)10
Leavesden Asylum7
Colney Hatch „5
Hanwell ,,5
Other Asylums6
„ Institutions4
Otherwise5
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Small Pox.—No case of Small Pox was registered in the year, this
making the fifth year since the disease visited the Borough. There
were only 4 deaths from Small Pox in London during 1900.
Vaccination.—The number of certificates of exemptions, from
conscientious objectors as to vaccination, &c., in 1900 for the Borough
of Hampstead, is stated by the Vaccination Officer to be 32.
Scarlet Fever.—220 cases of this disease were registered, against 285
for the previous year; 125 of these were removed to isolation hospitals,
including four cases that occurred among the nursing staff of the
North-Western Hospital. Our deaths from this cause were 4, or 2 less
than the number recorded for 1899; the mortality was 1.8 on registered
cases.
Diphtheria.—153 cases of Diphtheria were notified during the year,
against 106 for 1899. The fatal cases from this cause were 30,