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St James's 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]

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Table: Table B.—POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1900, in the District of St. James's, in the City of Westminster —a Metropolitan District.Classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Table B.—POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1900, in the District of St. James's, in the City of Westminster —a Metropolitan District.

Classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Localities. (a)Population at all Ages.Registered Births.Ages. (e)Infectious Sickness Reported in each locality.Infectious cases removed to extra-parochial hospitals.
1234567891011Totals.1234567891011Totals.
Census 1891 (b)Census 1896. (c)Smallpox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Membranous. Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
Typhus.Enteric.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(d)
Parish of St. James (minus Union-House and Throat Hospital)......385Under 5...1210.....................123...128........................20
5 upwards...4629......14............15104...4223......8............174
Westminster Union— House, Poland Street......25Under 5........................................................................
5 upwards........................................................................
Throat Hospital, Golden Square.........Under 5........................................................................
5 upwards...6...........................6...6...........................6
Parish of St. James's24,99523,050410Under 5...1210.....................123...128........................20100
5 upwards...5229......14.........15110...4823......8............180

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"Notification of Infectious Disease" has been compulsory in the District since October, 1889. The Isolation Hospitals used by the sick are all outside the Parish. They are
the various Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. To these Isolation Hospitals 83 of the above removals took place, while 18 went to other extra parochial Hospitals
(vide page 10 and Table II.). Many such cases in St. James's, again, are not completely described as "removed from their homes." To meet these facts and to increase the clearness
of Tables A and B, I have slightly altered the wording of certain headings and the ruling of certain compartments.
In the preparation of the above Tables A and B. as prescribed by Sec. 15 of Article 18 of the Order of the Local Government
Board, I have given attention to the annotations which are endorsed upon the Model Forms.—J. E.