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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

Stoke Newington 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: TABLE B2.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during each month of the year 1900.

TABLE B2.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during each month of the year 1900.

Small-pox.Scarlet FeverDiphtheriaMembranousCroup.Typhoid Fever.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Totals.
January..95..11319
February..104....1318
March..127..1..222
April..44..3..112
May..771..1218
June..65..5..218
July..1451....222
August..75..31319
September..98..4..122
October..1331..2..349
November..1317..2....32
December..1222......640
Totals..116120221428291

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The Infectious Sickness Rate for London generally was 7.7
and of the 43 Sanitary Areas situated within the Metropolis, the
lowest rates were those of St. George, Hanover Square, (4.5),
Paddington (5.0), St. Martin's-in-the-Fields (4.3), and the highest
were St. George, Southwark, Whitechapel, Fulham, St. Saviours,
Southwark, and Plumstead, all of which exceeded 10.
175 of the cases notified were removed from their homes to
Isolation Hospitals, as against 124 in the preceding year.