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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 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Parish of St. Mary]

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Table: (B.) Table of Population, Births, and ofNew Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1897, in the Parish of St. Mary, Stoke Newington, classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

(B.) Table of Population, Births, and ofNew Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1897, in the Parish of St. Mary, Stoke Newington, classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Names of 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 Hospitals.
Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1897.Small-pox.ScarlatinaDiphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fever.Erysipelas.Totals.Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Fever.Erysipelas.Totals.
Enteric or Typhoid.Puerperal.Enteric or Tvphoid.
(1) NorthernDivisionUnder 5..84........12..1......1
5 upwds...2912..111457, .1228..17
(2) SouthornDivision33,48533,715885Under 5..21171......39..99....18
5 upwds.25020..2721811923079..48
Totals....••..2108531383222272521812..84

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The "Notification of Infectious Disease " has been compulsory in the district since October 30th, 1889. Cases have been isolated at the Homerton
Foyer Hospital, St. Anne's Fever Hospital (Tottenham), the London Fever Hospital (Liverpool Road. N.), and the Hospital Ships (Small-pox),