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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
Mile End 1898
Annual report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the District for the year 1898
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TABLE 2. STATISTICS AS REQUIRED BY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD. Table of Population, Births, and of new Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1898, in the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town Sanitary District; 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 5or over 5 | New Cases of Sickness in each Locality coming tothe knowledge of the medical officer of health. | number of such cases removed from their homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |||||
| Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membran-ous Croup. | fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membran-ous Croup. | fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | |||||||||||||
| Census 1891. | Esti-mated to middle of | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mile End Old Town | 111360 | 112528 | 4275 | Under 5 | 137 | 90 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 61 | 38 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 210 | 108 | 1 | 33 | 1 | 9 | 132 | 101 | 39 | 12 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Mile End Infirmary | Under 5 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 2 | 9 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| London Hospital | Under 5 | 22 | 30 | 1 | 7 | 20 | 30 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 35 | 27 | 18 | 20 | 35 | 24 | 17 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Children's Hospital, Shadwell | Under 5 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eastern Hospital, Homerton | Under 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tower Hamlets Dispensary | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Grove Workhouse | Under 5 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Under 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Totals | Under 5 | 164 | 128 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 86 | 76 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 255 | 143 | 1 | 52 | 1 | 9 | 165 | 146 | 71 | 29 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||