Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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TABLE III.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in Kensington. | Total Cases Notified in each Sub-District. | Number of Cases removed to Hospital from each Sub-District. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | Under 1 | 1 to 5. | At Ages—Years | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards | Kensington Town. | Brompton. | Kensington Town. | Brompton. | ||
| 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | ||||||||||
| Small-Pox | |||||||||||
| Chicken-Pox | |||||||||||
| Cholera | |||||||||||
| Diphtheria | 225 | 4 | 68 | 96 | 25 | 17 | 168 | 57 | 150 | 46 | |
| Membranous croup | 9 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 8 | ||||||
| Erysipelas | 127 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 71 | 25 | 109 | 18 | 8 | 1 |
| Scarlet fever | 622 | 4 | 182 | 804 | 52 | 80 | 480 | 92 | 408 | 82 | |
| Typhus fever | |||||||||||
| Enteric fever | 40 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 2 | 88 | 7 | 22 | 5 | |
| Relapsing fever | |||||||||||
| Continued fever | 8 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | ||||||
| Puerperal fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Plague | |||||||||||
| Oerebro-Spinal Fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| 930 | 12 | 229 | 420 | 100 | 142 | 27 | 756 | 174 | 591 | 184 | |