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St George (Southwark) 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]

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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health—1897

Table: Table XII.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 Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. George's, Southwark; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.NOTE—The Population and Birth Columns that come first below are estimated on a Sub-District basis, while the rest of the figures are worked out in Ward Divisions as that is thepractice followed by the Vestry.

Table XII.

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 Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. George's, Southwark; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

NOTE—The Population and Birth Columns that come first below are estimated on a Sub-District basis, while the rest of the figures are worked out in Ward Divisions as that is thepractice followed by the Vestry.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics ; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all ages.Registered Births.Aped under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the medical officer of healthNumber of such Cases Removed from their homes in the several Localities for treatment in Isolation Hospital.
Small-pox.Scarlatina.DiphtheriaMembranous. Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous CroupFevers.CholeraErysipelas.
Last CensusEstimatedto middle of 1897.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsingPuerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
Boro' Road16,08315,940598Under 5...73462......1.........1.........6839..............................
5 upwds....93711...13............29.........83571...12............5......
London Road21,31621,328669Under 5...175.....................2.........164..............................
5upwds....48131...12............24.........4410......10............4...
Kent Road22,87923,120847Under 5...42191..................3.........3518..............................
5 upwds.18724......10......1...21.........6920......7............1......
Evelina Hospital.........Under 5...2....................................2.................................
5 upwds....52.................................51..............................
St. George's Workhouse.........Under 5..............................................................................
5 upwds....1.........2............4.........1.........2.....................
School for the Blind.........Under 5..............................................................................
5 upwds....1....................................1.................................
Royal Bye Hospital.........Under 5..............................................................................
5 upwds......1....................................1..............................
Totals60,27860,3882144Under 5...134703......1.........6.........19161..............................
5 upwds12351112...37......1...78......1203891...31............10......