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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

Hanover Square 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square]

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Table: (B)TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEWCASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year, 1892, in themetropolitan Sanitary District of S t . G eorge's , H anover S quare,classified according to Diseases, cases, and Localities.

(B)TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEWCASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year, 1892, in themetropolitan Sanitary District of S t . G eorge's , H anover S quare,

classified according to Diseases, cases, and Localities.

Localities,Population at all Ages.Registered Births.Aged under 5 or 5 and upwards.New Cases of Sickness in locality.Number of such cases removed from home to hospital.
Census 1891.Estimated to Middle of 1892.12345671011Totals.1234567891011Totals.
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.FeverCholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
Typhus.Enteric (or Typhoid).Typhus.Enteric (or Typhoid).Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)d)(e)
Mayfair23,73423,487266Under 5...197..................26...144........................18
5 upwards16712......13......121061528......1...............62
Belaravia54,62855,1621,253Under 5...46231...3......275...3412........................46
5 upwards...18059......21...136297...13324......6............4167
St. George's Infirmary (Fulliam Road).........Under 5..................................................................
5 upwards........................45....................................
Union Workhouse.........Under 5..................................................................
5 upwards..................................................................
St. George's Hospital.........Under 5......8..................8....................................
5 upwards......3......5......210....................................
BelgraveChildren's Hospital.........Under 5...31......1......16...21........................3
5 upwards...3.....................3...3...........................3
Orthopaedic Hospital (Hanover Square).........Under 5..................................................................
5 upwards......5..................5......5........................5
Totals.........Under 5...68391...4......3115...5017........................67
5 upwards125079......3942154426118837......7............4237

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"Notification of Infectious Disease" has been compulsory in the District since October 31st, 1889. The Isolation Hospitals are the
Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and occasionally the London Fever Hospital and the London Small-Pox Hospital.