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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
Limehouse 1897
Report on the sanitary condition of the Limehouse District (comprising the Parishes of Limehouse, Shadwell, and Wapping, and the Hamlet of Ratcliff) for the year 1897
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TABLE VI.—TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, and of NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health,
during the year 1897, in the Limehouse District; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
| Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as as separate localities. | Population at all Ages. | Registered Births. | Aged under 5 or over 5 | New 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 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 | |||||
| Last Census. | Estimated to middle of 1897. | Small Pox | Scarlatina | Diphtheria | Membranuus Croup | Fevers. | Cholera | Erysipelas | Small Pox | Scarlatina | Diphtheria | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Puerperal | Cholera | Erysipelas | ||||||||||
| Typhus | Enteric or Typhoid | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | Typhus | Enteric or Typhoid | Continued | Relapsing | ||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Limehouse | 32917 | 1197 | Under 5 | — | 68 | 31 | 1 | — | 3 | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | 44 | 23 | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 5 upwds. | - | 163 | 53 | - | - | 17 | - | - | 3 | - | 44 | - | 112 | 33 | - | - | 14 | - | - | - | - | 10 | ||||
| Ratcliff | 14954 | 471 | Under 5 | - | 37 | 16 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 19 | 5 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 5 upwds. | - | 81 | 36 | - | - | 18 | - | - | - | - | 28 | - | 57 | 21 | - | - | 12 | - | - | - | - | 6 | ||||
| Shadwell and Wapping | 10434 | 329 | Under 5 | - | 30 | 16 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 5 upwds. | - | 41 | 34 | - | - | 12 | - | - | - | - | 12 | - | 34 | 25 | - | - | 11 | - | - | - | - | 5 | ||||
| Totals | 58305 | 58508 | 1997 | Under 5 | - | 135 | 63 | 3 | - | 4 | - | - | 1 | - | 6 | - | 86 | 39 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 upwds. | - | 285 | 123 | - | - | 47 | - | - | 3 | - | 84 | - | 203 | 79 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | ||||