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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

St Olave 1899

Annual report of the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the District for the year 1899

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Table: (B) TABLE II.—In accordance with the Requirements of 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 1899 (52 weeks ending 31st December, 1899), in the St. Olave's, (Southwark, S.E.); classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

(B) TABLE II.—In accordance with the Requirements of 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 1899 (52 weeks ending 31st December, 1899), in the St. Olave's, (Southwark, S.E.); 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 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 Hospitals.
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Census 1896Estimated to middle of 1899.
Small-poxScarlatinaDiphtheriaMembranous CroupFEVERS.CholeraErysipelasSmall-poxScarlatinaDiphtheriaMembranous | CroupFEVERSCholeraErysipelas
TyphusEnteric or TyphoidContinuedRelapsingPuerperal
TyphusEnteric or TyphoidContinuedRelapsingPuerperal
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
St. Olave District11,73111,128365Under 5...2117.................................2316..............................
5 upwds....3614......10......1...............3313......9......1............
Guy's Nurses, Staff andUnder 5..............................................................................
Nursing Institution5 upwds....5.........1........................51......1.....................
WorkhouseUnder 5..............................................................................
5 upwds.....................................................................................
TotalsUnder 5...2417.................................2316..............................
5 upwds.4115......11......1...3.........3814......10......1............