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Croydon 1894

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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B, TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, and OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1894, in the Croydon Rural District, classified according to Diseases , Ages, and Localities.

NAMES OF LOCALITIES, adopted for the purpose of these statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all Ages.Registered Births.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number op such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospitals.
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Diarrhoea.Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.
Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1894.Typhus.Enteric or TyphoidContinued.Relapsing.Puerperal
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.1112.13.1.2.3.
ADDINGTON67067020Under 5
5 upwds.1
BEDDINGTON2607280753Under 523
5 upwds.61112
COULSDON3335356887Under 528
5 upwds.124411
MERTON3360351782Under 5316
5 upwds.76253
MITCHAM1075811521365Under 5717119123
5 upwds.3432123584166
MORDEN76385219Under 541
5 upwds.22
SANDERSTEAD50954714Under 5
5 upwds.5
WALLINGTON3823428075Under 53109
5 upwds.62411227
WOODMANSTERNE40843817Under 5
5 upwds.
RUSSELL HILL SCHOOL, BEDDINGTONUnder 5
5 upwds.1
BEDDINGTON ORPHANAGEUnder 5
5 upwds.1
REEDHAM ORPHANAGE, COULSDON5 upwds.1
OANE HILL ASYLUM, COULSDON11152016Under 5
5 upwds2
HOLBORN WORKHOUSE, MITiJHAM892872Under 51
5 upwds1
HOLBORN SCHOOLS, MITCHAM477447Under 52262
5 upwds103010
GARFIELD HOME, MERTONUnder 5
5 upwds.76
Totals2871731535732Under 521191166153
5 upwds.2784411261729241406
(Excluding Imtitutiom)2623328200

Notification of Infectious Disease has been compulsory in the District since 1890. The Workhouse Infirmary at Croydon, is used for the isolation of pauper patients only. Every Institution,
except) the last, possesses isolation accommodation of its own. Diarrhoea was a notifiable disease during September.