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Strand (Westminster) 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Strand District, London]
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Local Government Board. Form B. TABLE XVI.
Table of POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1898, (52 weeks) in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of STRAND, classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
| Names or Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities. | Population at all Ages. | Registered Births. | Aged under 5 or over 5. | New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health. | Number of such cases removed from their homes in the several Localities for treatment in Isolation Hospital. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Census 1896. | Estimated to middle of 1898. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 8 | » | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 7 | 1 8 | 1 9 | 10 | 11 | |||||
| Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | TOTALS. | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | TOTALS. | |||||||||||||
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SUB-DISTRICTS— St. Anne, Soho | 12,048 | 12,150 | 261 | Under 5 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 22 | 10 | 8 | 18 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 20 | 32 | 5 | 7 | 64 | 15 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 48 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Strand | 11,734 | 12,250 | 237 | Under 5 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Westminster Workhouse, Poland Street | 158 | 14 | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strand Union Workhouse, Edmonton | 774 | 7 | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Do. DO. Bear Yard | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kino's College Hospital | Under 5 | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Under 5 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 29 | 12 | 12 | 24 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 24,714 | 24,400 | 519 | 5 upwds | 31 | 35 | 9 | 11 | 86 | 25 | 34 | 5 | 2 | 66 | ||||||||||||||
| * 3 of these Births belong to the Parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||