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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

Holborn 1901

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: TABLE III.

TABLE III.

Notifiable Disease.Cases notified in whole District.Total Cases notified in each Locality.No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Locality.
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.Bloomsbury and St. Giles.Holborn.Bloomsbury and St. Giles.Holborn.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards.
Smallpox211210194613041585315551
Cholera-----------
Diphtheria161156741911-601015696
Membranous Croup1-1----1-1-
Erysipelas89213463165831204
Scarlet Fever2542731243916-15010414197
Typhus Fever1----1-1-1-
Enteric Fever39-212817-17221418
Relapsing Fever-----------
Continued Fever------------
Puerperal Fever2---11-11--
Plague-----------
Chicken pox482201934-2028--
Totals806916325112024320466340388266

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Note.—The Isolation Hospitals are those of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Table: TABLE IV.

TABLE IV.

Causes op Death.Deaths in or belonging to whole District at subjoined Ages.Deaths in or be-longing to localities (at all ages).Total DeathsinPublic Institutionsin theDistrict.
All Ages."Under 1.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 andupwards.Bloomsbury and St. Giles.Holborn.
Small-pox30-31323-1911-
Measles227141---9133
Scarlet Fever3-3----12-
Whooping Cough10361---4626
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup14-95---6818
Croup----------
FeverTyphus----------
Enteric12--327-753
Other Continued----------
Epidemic Influenza9---153182
Cholera----------
Plague----------
Diarrhoea42364--11182440
Enteritis5311---414
Puerperal Fever----------
Erysipelas4----4-223
Other Septic Diseases82--15-446
Phthisis169112151428967342
Other Tubercular Diseases328127221171549
Cancer, Malignant Disease53----3518282526
Bronchitis1542314125460559921
Pneumonia1102012745215545678
Pleurisy81--232262
Other Diseases of Respiratory Organs2---11--23
Alcoholism Cirrhosis of Liver29----29-19107
Venereal Diseases1----1--12
Premature Birth3232-----161616
Diseases and. Accidents of Parturition4---13--41
Heart Diseases952-435531563939
Accidents36773312416204
Suicides14----14-77-
All other causes2835815679899134149177
All causes11812031014247546242575606572