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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
City of Westminster 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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| Cases. | Total. | 0 to 1 year. | 1 to 5 years. | 5 to 15 years. | 15 to 25 years. | 25 to 65 years. | 65 years and over. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 144 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 103 | 17 |
| 1903 | 111 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 84 | 9 |
| 1904 | 125 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 82 | 14 |
| 1905 | 123 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 20 | 74 | 11 |
| 1906 | 127 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 86 | 14 |
| 630 | 14 | 10 | 42 | 70 | 429 | 65 | |
| Deaths. | |||||||
| 1902 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 |
| 1903 | 6 | - | — | — | — | 5 | 1 |
| 1904 | 6 | — | — | — | — | 3 | 3 |
| 1905 | 3 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 |
| 1906 | 8 | 4 | — | — | — | 3 | 1 |
| 28 | 4 | - | - | - | 15 | 9 | |
| Rate for 100 cases | 4.4% | 28.5% | — | — | — | 3.5% | 13.8% |
| Year. | January. | February. | March. | April. | May. | J une. | July. | August. | September. | October. | November. | December. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 140 |
| 1903 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 17 | 5 | 8 | 111 |
| 1904 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 125 |
| 1905 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 124 |
| 1906 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 124 |
| 52 | 41 | 53 | 41 | 50 | 56 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 71 | 58 | 55 | 624 |
Insanitary Conditions.—Omitting cases in hospitals, common lodging
houses, and those occurring in persons long resident in infirmaries or
workhouses, insanitary conditions were found to exist in 11 per cent,
of the notified cases, but in a number besides, although no actual
nuisance was reported at the time, the standard of sanitation was low.
Although a number of the cases notified as erysipelas are probably
not true cases of the disease, the term being somewhat loosely applied
to several affections accompanied by redness of the skin varying in
severity from slight erythema, arising from gastric disturbances, to
fatal cellulitis, yet on the whole it appears desirable that notification
should be continued.