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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

Chelsea 1902

Annual report for 1902 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: TABLE XII. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1902.

TABLE XII. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1902.

Notifiable Disease.Cases notified in Whole District.Total Cases notified in each Locality.No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Locality.
At all Ages.At AgU7st—Years.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards.Chelsea North.Chelsea South.Chelsea North.Chelsea South.Whole Borough.
Small-pox381• •21322• •2315221537
Cholera......................••
Diphtheria130••3669169• •79516543108
Membranous croup1••••1• •• •• •• •1••11
Erysipelas5942343883128••••••
Scarlet fever204160105231419510980103183
Typhus fever......................••
Enteric fever36••••41517••2115121224
Relapsing fever........................
Continued fever........................
Puerperal fever7• •• •• •52••25••11
Plague• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •
Chicken-pox21514929748••115100••••••
Totals69020190281801109366324179175354

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Notes.—The localities adopted for this table should be the same as those in Tables II. and IV.
State in space below the name of the isolation hospital, if any, to which residents in the
district, suffering from infectious disease, are usually sent. Mark (h) the locality in
which it is situated, or if not within the district, state where it is situated, and in what
district. Mark (w) the locality in which a workhouse is situated.
+ These age columns for notifications should be filled up in all cases where the Medical Officer
of Health, by inquiry or otherwise, has obtained the necessary information.