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London County Council 1900

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

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Cancer.

Sanitary district.0-5-10-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85 & up.All ages.
Paddington11311313831192137
Kensington-1-1-419294339231160
Hammersmith-1---11023282110195
Fulham--1--2172835247-114
Chelsea----211328182212399
St. George, Hanover-square-----2712211813174
Westminster---1--10910114-45
St. James-------81091-28
Marylebone1-11161827574512O O172
Hampstead-----152225189-80
Pancras3---11123417558272241
Islington1--22731839865293321
Stoke Newington------3811141-37
Hackney-1123622404748163189
St. Giles------6814121-41
St. Martin-in-the-Fields------223---7
Strand1----127253-21
Holborn1261162-28
Clerkenwell------7141063-40
St. Luke-1---2376126-37
London, City of-----531135128
Shoreditch11--1171919219180
Bethnal-green12---18223526131109
Whitechapel1-121241519124-61
St. George in-the-East---1129971-30
Limehouse---1--891483-43
Mile-end Old-town11-12261629186-82
Poplar-1121417274528131140
St. Saviour, Southwark-----234892-28
St. George, Southwark-----13913121140
Newington----147314021121117
St. Olave1-----11331-10
Bermondsey-----2112620101171
Rotherhithe-----227622-21
Lambeth131-4152474816233-298
Battersea---1-42017392292114
Wandsworth23113516345137182173
Camberwell-2-11616468046194221
Greenwich111-1421334641147170
Lewisham1-1-1311183529131113
Woolwich----12331044-27
Lee-----3448104235
Plumstead---2-29116153-58
London1718920261144198711,199910388444,035

Plague.
During the year 1900 London remained free from plague, although several cases of this
disease occurred among the crews of vessels entering the port.
The report of Dr. Collingridge, the medical officer of health of the port, gives account of
the following cases—
On the 22nd April, the s.s. Barbara, of West Hartlepool from Buenos Ayres, arrived at
Gravesend. " She had. left Buenos Ayres on the 18th March, calling at Cape Verde on the 7th
April and at Madeira on the 14th April. The patient (a foreman cattleman) was taken ill on the
9th April. He was isolated with all his effects, and the vessel thoroughly disinfected before being
allowed to pass up the river." No further cases occurred. On the 3rd July the s.s. Rome
arrived at Gravesend from Sydney, which she left on the 19th May, calling at
Melbourne, Adelaide, Albany, Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Said, Marseilles, and Plymouth.
She arrived in the Royal Albert Lock on the 4th July ; two native firemen were
admitted into the branch Seamen's Hospital suffering from dysentery and one native fireman
suffered from pleurisy. On the 12th July a deck topaz was admitted to the same hospital with
" enteric fever." Dr. Collingridge reports of this man that it was stated that he was first taken
ill on the 8th with shivering, followed by sweating, and was feverish up to the time of admission,
with slight vomiting and pains in the back and legs. On admission his temperature was
102'4 F., pulse 120, respirations 48, speaks thickly and indistinctly, eyes suffused, staggering gait,
tongue thickly coated white, abdomen distended and empty, has taken no food, no appetite, organs
apparently normal." He died on the 14th, and the post-mortem examination presented the
appearances of enteritis. On the 14th a Goanese iceman from the same ship was admitted into
the hospital with a temperature of 105° F., and delirium and enlarged glands in the left inguinal
region. Bacteriological examination of material taken from the enlarged gland led
on the 27th to the discovery of the plague bacillus, and he was removed to the Port Sanitary