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London County Council 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Table: In the year 1892, 425 cases of smallpox were notified, and 299 patients removed from London to the smallpox hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, of whom 23 were found not to be suffering from this disease. The cases notified were distributed throughout the year as follows—

In the year 1892, 425 cases of smallpox were notified, and 299 patients removed from London to the smallpox hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, of whom 23 were found not to be suffering from this disease. The cases notified were distributed throughout the year as follows—

Week of year.Week endingCases notified.Week of year.Week endingCases notified.
19th January1279th July9
216th „12816th „3
323rd „12923rd „4
430th „23030th „2
56th February1316th August4
613th „23213th „3
720th „13320th „5
827th „43427th „5
95th March4353rd September2
1012th „93610th „—
1119th „73717th „—
1226th „173824th3
132nd April22391st October—
149th „12408th „2
1516th „134115th „3
1623rd „144222nd „5
1730th „64329th „—
187th May17445th November1
1914th „324512th „5
2021st „284619th „13
2128th „314726th „6
224th June28483rd December8
2311th „204910th „11
2418th „135017th „9
2525 th „105124th „7
262nd July95231st „10

Table: The cases notified in, and the deaths belonging to the several sanitary districts are shown in the following table—

The cases notified in, and the deaths belonging to the several sanitary districts are shown in the following table—

Cases notified.Deaths.Cases notified.Deaths.
West—Brought forward17011
Kensington3—East—
Hammersmith2—Shoreditch834
Fulham2—Bethnal-green365
Paddington3—Whitechapel23—
Chelsea41St. George-in-the-East41
St. George, Hanover-square1—Limehouse7—
Westminster2—Mile-end Old-town101
St. James4—Poplar5—
North—South—
Marylebone11—St. Saviour, Southwark——
Hampstead1—St. George, Southwark2—
Pancras342Newington——
Islington423St. Olave——
Hackney271Bermondsey2—
Central—Rotherhithe——
Lambeth241
St. Giles7—Battersea41
St. Martin-in-the-Fields——Wandsworth——
Strand7—Camberwell161
Holborn3—Greenwich111
Clerkenwell3—Lewisham3—
St. Luke94Woolwich2
London, City of5Plumstead193
Carried forward17011Port of London4—
42529

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Dr. Allan, the medical officer of health of Shoreditch, gives in a quarterly report the following
information concerning the condition as to vaccination of 90 cases of smallpox in that district—"Dealing
first with the unvaccinated class, comprising 16 cases, 8 had the disease in confluent forms and 5 of
them died, their ages being 1 year, 15 months, 2 years, 5 years and 31 years respectively; in 1 case the
disease was semi-confluent, and in 7 was discrete, but ran the course of ordinary or unmodified smallpox.
67 are recorded to have been vaccinated in infancy, but that statement must not be taken to imply