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St James's 1899

Report for the year 1899 made to the Vestry of Saint James, Westminster

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Table: Table B.—POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1899, in the Parish or St. James's, Westminster—a Metropolitan District.Classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Table B.—POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1899, in the Parish or St. James's, Westminster—a Metropolitan District.

Classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Localities.Population at all Agks.Registered births.Infectious Sicknkss Reported in each locality.Infectious casks removed to extka-parochial hospitals.
Ages.1234567891011Totals.1234567891011Totals.
Census 1891.Census 1896.Smallpox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Membranous. Croup.Fevers.Cholera.j Erysipelas.
Typhus.Enteric.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric.ContinuedRelapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
Parish of St. James (minus Union-House and Throat Hospital)......399..............................137...1020......2...............32
5 upwards...3718......32............20107...3514......22............475
Westminster Union— House, Poland Street......36Under 5........................................................................
5 upwards...........................................................................
Throat Hospital, Golden Square.........Under 5........................................................................
5 upwards........................................................................
Parish of St. James's24,99523,050435Under 5...1321......2............1371144...1020......2...............32107
5 upwards...3718......32............20107...3514......22............476

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"Notification of Infectious Disease" has been compulsory in the District since October, 1889. The Isolation Hospitals used by the sick are all outside the Parish. They are
the various Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. To these Isolation Hospitals go of the above removals took place, while 27 went to other extra parochial Hospitals
(vide page 8 and Table II.). Many such cases in St. James's, again, are not completely described as " removed from their homes." To meet these facts and to increase the clearness
of Tables A and B, I have slightly altered the wording of certain headings and the ruling of certain compartments.
In the preparation of the above Tables A and B, as prescribed by Sec. 15 of Article 18 of the Order of the Local Government
Board, I have given attention to the annotations which are endorsed upon the Model Forms.—J. E,