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Plumstead 1897

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health, 1897

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TABLE IV.

(B), Table of POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS,coming of he knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year1897,in the Parish of Plumstead ; classified according toDiseases, Ages, and Looauties.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shewn as separate localities.Population at All Ages.Registered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5New Casks of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the medical Officer of Health.Number of such cases Removed from their Homes in the Several Localities for treatment in isolation hospital.
Census 1896.Estimated to middle of 1897.123456789101112123456789101112
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Typhus.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Total.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.CholeraErysipelas.Total.
Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)cde
NORTH WARD5329....Under 5..94................13..74................11
Over 5..136....1........323..114....1..........16
NORTH-EAST „5651....Under 5..94..............114..75................12
Over 5..194....1....1..429..113....2..........16
NORTH-WEST „5289....Under 5..106................16..93................5
Over 5..166....2........397..89................10
WEST „5222....Under 5..12....1..........4......................1
Over 5..146....2........597..103....1..........14
SOUTH-WEST „7152....Under 5..58................13..33................6
Over 5..2214..............541..118................19
SOUTH-EAST „10616....Under 51161............119..86................14
Over 5..4010....3........261..335....2..........40
EAST „11011....Under..3991..........453..947................31
Over 5..75111..9....139109..496....3..........58
SOUTH „8952....Under 5..9611..............340..158................23
Over 5..4922....6....11584..3219....3..........47
INFIRMARY „......Under 5..4..................4........................
Over 5..3................14..2..................2
WORKHOUSE „......Under 5................................................
Over 5..1..................1........................
TOTALS59252610901975Under 5..114502..1........9176..6637................103
Over 5..253791..24....3437406..16743....12..........222
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 where it is situated.