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Limehouse 1899

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 1899

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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 1899,

in the Limehouse District; classified according to D iseases , A ges and L ocalities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localitiesPopulation at all Ages.Registered Birlhs.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 Hospitals.
Last Census.Estimated to middle of 1899.12345678910111234567891011
Small PoxScarlatinaDiphtheriaMembranous CroupFevkhs.CholeraErysipelasSmall PoxScarlatinaDiphtheriaMembranons CroupfeversCholeraErysipelas
TyphusEnt< l ie or TyphoidContinuedRelapsingPuerperalTyphusEnteric or TyphoidContinuedRelapsingPuerperal
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
Limehouse32917333901144Under 5 5 upwds...3532....5........2..2324....5..........
*16136....73....2..3214428....62........6
Ratcliff1495414966463Under 5 5 upwds.1520151315i. .. .2
..2227....23........18..1622....18........3
Shadwell and Wapping1043410451326Under 5 5 upwds...651............2..651..............
*1225....29....1..191165....24....1..4
Totals58305588071933Under 5 5 upwds...56572..5........9..42442..5........2
*210568....125....3..6927655....104........13

* These two did not contract the Disease in the District, hut in the Eastern Fever Hospital, where they had been for over a month, and were recovering from Scarlet Fever for which they had been removed.