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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

Hanover Square 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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Table: (B) TABLE 0F POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1895, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. George, Hanover Square,classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

(B) TABLE 0F POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1895, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. George, Hanover Square,

classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Localities.Population at all Ages.Registered Births.Ages.New Cases of Sickness ineach locality.Totals.number of such cases removed from home to hospitals.
12345678910111234567891011Totals.
Census 1891.Estimated to Middle of 1895.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
Typhus.Enteric (or Typhoid).Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric (or Typhoid).Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
Mayfair23,73422,904260Under 5...921..................113...411.....................6
5 upwards136111...171.........572...257......10...............42
Belgravia54,62856,4641.210Under 5...64302...1............4101...55242...1...............82
5 upwards...18549......181...1...50304...15438......10............2204
St. George's Infirmary (Fulham Road).........Under 5........................................................................
5 upwards........................................................................
Union Workhouse.........Under 5........................................................................
5 upwardsi...........................671...........................67
St George's Hospital.........Under 5........................................................................
5 upwards...4.........11.........17...2...........................2
Belgrave Children's Hospital.........Under 5........................................................................
5 upwards........................................................................
St. Gabriel's do..........Under 5........................................................................
5 upwards........................................................................
Orthopaedic Hospital (Hanover Square).........Under 5........................................................................
5 upwards........................................................................
Gordon Hospital for Cancer.........Under 5........................................................................
5 upwards........................................................................
Total78,36279,3681,470Under 5...73323...1............5114...59253...1...............88
5 upwards2225601...363...1...62390l18145......20............8255

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"Notification of Infectious Disease" has been compulsory in the District since October 31st, 1889. The Isolation Hospitals are the Hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board, and occasionally the London Fever Hospital and the London Small Pox Hospital,