Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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(B.)
1887-1900.
Sanitary district. | Year | |||||||||||||
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1887. | 1888. | 1889. | 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | 1898. | 1899. | 1900. | |
Paddington | 113 | 213 | 95 | 103 | 63 | 52 | 77 | 125 | 73 | 86 | 102 | 123 | 53 | 62 |
Kensington | 104 | 177 | 176 | 61 | 53 | 45 | 65 | 75 | 102 | 68 | 94 | 38 | 58 | 47 |
Hammersmith | 222 | 135 | 129 | 155 | 234 | 168 | 71 | 80 | 83 | 83 | 56 | 54 | 53 | 74 |
Fulham | 113 | 42 | 39 | 76 | 66 | 73 | 84 | 162 | 135 | 112 | 106 | 126 | 105 | 147 |
Chelsea | 87 | 48 | 66 | 176 | 53 | 93 | 72 | 89 | 113 | 198 | 112 | 110 | 63 | 56 |
St. George, Hanover-square | 70 | 181 | 97 | 48 | 81 | 75 | 57 | 39 | 58 | 51 | 42 | 31 | 35 | 41 |
Westminster | 191 | 210 | 132 | 48 | 63 | 182 | 35 | 79 | 75 | 63 | 86 | 108 | 44 | 44 |
St. James | 48 | 61 | 21 | 36 | 88 | 57 | 77 | 103 | 33 | 15 | 26 | 59 | 33 | 53 |
Marylebone | 43 | 52 | 61 | 58 | 56 | 77 | 88 | 84 | 48 | 88 | 66 | 82 | 60 | 80 |
Hampstead | 96 | 84 | 34 | 94 | 59 | 89 | 71 | 44 | 37 | 66 | 44 | 62 | 44 | 112 |
Pancras | 113 | 100 | 68 | 167 | 94 | 102 | 113 | 82 | 106 | 68 | 94 | 103 | 107 | 91 |
Islington | 65 | 52 | 53 | 76 | 156 | 107 | 81 | 110 | 85 | 125 | 76 | 67 | 84 | 91 |
Stoke Newington | 83 | 113 | 116 | 88 | 106 | 127 | 116 | 25 | 29 | 95 | 112 | 36 | 40 | 121 |
Hackney | 97 | 75 | 80 | 124 | 141 | 93 | 79 | |||||||
St. Giles | 239 | 87 | 111 | 73 | 94 | 120 | 75 | 59 | 65 | 31 | 38 | 41 | 30 | 68 |
St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 139 | 61 | 34 | 21 | 88 | 191 | 77 | 72 | 102 | 39 | 48 | 62 | 19 | 50 |
Strand | 157 | 35 | 79 | 45 | 63 | 73 | 120 | 61 | 104 | 20 | 42 | 44 | 70 | 41 |
Holborn | 113 | 45 | 129 | 158 | 84 | 118 | 91 | 103 | 42 | 64 | 106 | 187 | 47 | 50 |
Clerkenwell | 109 | 126 | 95 | 85 | 131 | 95 | 153 | 84 | 98 | 105 | 146 | 141 | 98 | 82 |
St. Luke | 117 | 74 | 79 | 112 | 88 | 75 | 147 | 59 | 92 | 105 | 102 | 151 | 58 | 100 |
London, City of | 52 | 87 | 79 | 85 | 106 | 150 | 41 | 30 | 46 | 58 | 66 | 87 | 58 | 65 |
Shoreditch | 96 | 84 | 147 | 139 | 166 | 82 | 148 | 100 | 90 | 102 | 128 | 92 | 126 | 141 |
Bethnal-green | 91 | 132 | 208 | 267 | 147 | 207 | 141 | 169 | 150 | 97 | 130 | 123 | 107 | 144 |
Whitechapel | 35 | 106 | 121 | 206 | 228 | 177 | 107 | 98 | 144 | 102 | 86 | 64 | 77 | 71 |
St. George-in-the-East | 143 | 106 | 247 | 197 | 131 | 164 | 179 | 179 | 204 | 105 | 118 | 74 | 58 | 85 |
Limehouse | 104 | 139 | 216 | 145 | 88 | 100 | 141 | 144 | 150 | 141 | 100 | 113 | 135 | 85 |
Mile-end Old-town | 91 | 61 | 132 | 121 | 106 | 171 | 97 | 121 | 194 | 146 | 112 | 144 | 135 | 91 |
Poplar | 78 | 84 | 103 | 127 | 103 | 107 | 133 | 105 | 173 | 103 | 142 | 133 | 105 | 200 |
St. Saviour, Southwark | 126 | 152 | 116 | 55 | 128 | 50 | 87 | 126 | 98 | 119 | 96 | 156 | 163 | 188 |
St. George, Southwark | 87 | 126 | 89 | 70 | 94 | 100 | 100 | 134 | 54 | 110 | 92 | 154 | 242 | 112 |
Newington | 104 | 52 | 126 | 82 | 119 | 75 | 105 | 84 | 83 | 98 | 106 | 151 | 195 | 171 |
St. Olave | 70 | 103 | 21 | 94 | 125 | 55 | 76 | 41 | 65 | 129 | 34 | 69 | 188 | 82 |
Bermondsey | 83 | 52 | 71 | 67 | 59 | 55 | 125 | 128 | 65 | 142 | 146 | 131 | 240 | 212 |
Rotherhithe | 70 | 68 | 111 | 61 | 31 | 64 | 104 | 128 | 148 | 107 | 104 | 69 | 181 | 197 |
Lambeth | 170 | 129 | 153 | 82 | 88 | 107 | 87 | 80 | 73 | 78 | 96 | 97 | 119 | 100 |
Battersea | 83 | 65 | 61 | 82 | 144 | 80 | 143 | 120 | 110 | 83 | 126 | 179 | 84 | 59 |
Wandsworth | 148 | 79 | 42 | 72 | 91 | 89 | 74 | 48 | 36 | 114 | 113 | 77 | 56 | |
Camberwell | 130 | 94 | 82 | 67 | 63 | 75 | 72 | 128 | 138 | 171 | 132 | 85 | 142 | 150 |
Greenwich | 104 | 71 | 50 | 85 | 88 | 70 | 116 | 126 | 204 | 132 | 78 | 62 | 93 | 103 |
Lewisham | 74 | 152 | 18 | 64 | 34 | 61 | 92 | 62 | 33 | 149 | 84 | 74 | 140 | 76 |
Woolwich | 35 | 26 | 39 | 36 | 16 | 23 | 27 | 56 | 65 | 125 | 160 | 118 | 119 | 50 |
Lee | 100 | 45 | 37 | 42 | 25 | 36 | 72 | 92 | 56 | 73 | 86 | 90 | 81 | 121 |
Plumstead | 109 | 132 | 71 | 82 | 34 | 159 | 157 | 105 | 119 | 154 | 78 | 62 | 58 | 109 |
Diphtheria and elementary schools.
With the exception of the occurrence of a considerable number of cases of diphtheria
in the vicinity of the St. Marylebone Infirmary, North Kensington, mentioned by the medical
officer of health for Kensington, the only special prevalences of diphtheria discussed by
medical officers of health in their annual reports are those which have been associated with
school attendance. The medical officer of health of Fulham in a separate report discusses a
special prevalence of the disease in the 13 weeks ending the 24th November occurring
particularly in the Munster and Sand's-end wards, and especially the latter, largely due,
Dr. Jackson states, to the existence of unrecognised cases. Inquiry into the circumstances of
the prevalence led Dr. Jackson to advise the closing for two weeks of class-room H. of the
infants' department of the Langford-road Board School and the exclusion from the school of
other children attending the school and living in the same houses as the children attending
that class-room. This advice was acted upon by the Vestry of Fulham, and the circumstances
which led to it deserve to be stated in detail, inasmuch as the London School Board appealed to
the Board of Education against the action of the sanitary authority, the School Board being of
opinion "that the steps taken are unnecessary, and a doubt exists as to whether in such a case
as this children can legally be excluded from obtaining proper educational advantages when
not residing in infected houses." As the result of this appeal the Local Government Board
called for a report by the medical officer of health upon the circumstances which led him to
advise the particular course adopted, and subsequently informed the Board of Education "that
the course pursued does not appear to the Board to be unreasonable."
The following is extracted from Dr. Jackson's report—
Langford-road Board School. (Sand's-end Ward.)—Dealing now with this school, there was, during
the first six weeks of the period under consideration, no exceptional incidence of the disease upon the
See footnote, (1) page 5.