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Plumstead 1896

Third annual report 1896-7

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TABLE IV.

(B) 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 Parish of Plumstead; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all ages.Registered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5New Cases op Sickness in each locality, coming to the knowledge of the medical officer of Health.Number up such Cases removed from their Homes in the several Localities fob treatment in isolation hospital
Census 1896Estimated to middle of 1896123456789101112123466789101112
SmallpoxScarlatina.DiphtheriaMembranous CroupFeversCholeraErysipelasTotalSmallpoxScarlatinaDiphtheriaMembranous CroupFeversCholeraErysipelasTotal
TyphusEnteric or TyphoidContinuedRelapsingPuerperalTyphusEnteric or TyphoidContinuedRelapsingPuerperal
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
NORTH WARD5329....Under 5..117..............119..46................10
5 upwds.1175....2........328..152................17
NORTH-EAST „5651....Under 5..651..............12..51................16
5 upwds...1062..3....1..224..76....1..........14
NORTH-WEST „5289....Under 5..114..............116..51................6
5 upwds...31181............353..1761..............24
WEST „5222....Under 5..1081..............19..72..............9
5 upwds...3114....4........554..194....2..........25
SOUTH-WEST „7152....Under 5..96................15..53................8
5 upwds...1924..............447..147..............122
SOUTH-EAST „10646....Under 5..2212................34..73................10
5 upwds...5320....4....1..1090..279....2..........39
EAST „11011....Under 5..17143..1........136..129....1..........22
5 upwds...3813....63..1..667..2610....3..........39
SOUTH „8952....Under 5..2612..............139..136................19
5 upwds...3622....9........572..2812....2..........42
INFIRMARY „......Under 5..1..................1..1..................1
5 upwds...2................13..1..................1
WORKHOUSE „......Under 5..1..................1..1..................1
5 upwds...1..................1..1..................1
TOTALS59252....Under 5..114685..1........4192..6031....1..........92
5 upwds.32381223..283..3..394391155561..10........1224

State here whether "Notification of Infectious Disease" is compulsory in the District—Yes. Since when?—Notification Act. State here the
name of the Isolation Hospital used by the sick of the District. Mark (H) the Locality in which such Hospital is situated; and if not within the
District, state wh6re it is situated