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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
Hackney 1903
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1903
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Summary of Persona Lodged and Maintained at Council's Shelter, in Millfields Road, Clapton, N.E., during the year ended 31st December, 1903.
| Month. | No. of Persons admitted. (All causes.) | Cost of Maintenance. | Average period of Stay. | Diseases. | No.of Persons Admitted for bath only. | |||||
| Men. | Women. | Children | Total. | £ | s. | d. | ||||
| January | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 2.0 days. | 1 Caee of Scarlet Fever | 1 | |
| February | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 1.8 „ | 2 Cases „ | ||
| 1 Case „ | ||||||||||
| March | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 2.8 „ | 1 Case of Diphtheria | ||
| 1 „ „ | ||||||||||
| April | 3 | 2 | 11 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 „ | 2 Cases of Scarlet Fever | 2 |
| 3 „ „ | ||||||||||
| May | 5 | 7 | 18 | 30 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 2.0 „ | 4 „ Diphtheria | |
| 3 „ „ | ||||||||||
| Juno | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 2.0 „ | 2 „ Scarlet Fever | |
| 1 Case „ | ||||||||||
| July | 3 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 2.0 „ | 2 Cases of Diphtheria | 7 |
| 2 „ Enteric | ||||||||||
| August | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 2.0 „ | 2 „ Scarlet Fever | 1 |
| 5 ,, Diphtheria | ||||||||||
| September | 4 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2.0 „ | 2 ,, Enteric | |
| 5 „ Scarlet Fever | ||||||||||
| October | 5 | 7 | 10 | 22 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 2.0 „ | 1 Case of Enteric | |
| November | ||||||||||
| December | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 6 | 2.0 „ | 1 ,, Diphtheria | ||
| 1 „ Scarlet Fever | ||||||||||
| Totals | 31 | 42 | 75 | 148 | 18 | 12 | 3 | 2 05 „ | 11 | |