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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

Kensington 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]

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Table: TABLE III. (Required by the Local Government Board to be used in the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health.) Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1908.

TABLE III. (Required by the Local Government Board to be used in the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health.) Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1908.

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.At Ages—YearsKensington Town.Brompton.Kensington Town.Brompton.
Under 11 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards
Small-Pox.................................
Chicken-Pox...........................
Cholera............ ........................
Diphtheria (including Membranous croup)28038594252211666415054
Erysipelas12974978319111187...
Scarlet fever43951112425180...3607983563
Typhus fever...........................•••
Enteric fever36...13171412511189
Relapsing fever................................ .
Continued fever1............1...1...1...
Puerperal fever11.........47...74.... ..
Plague.................................
Cerobro-Spinal Fever1......1.........1...1...
Totals8471520134910415721671176512126