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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
Southgate 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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TABLE 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 1898, in the Southgate Urban 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. | Aged under 5 or over 5. | New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health. | Number of such Cases removed from their Homes in the severa Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last Census. 1891 | Estimated to middle of 1898. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Fevers | Erysipelas. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Fevers | Erysipelas. | |||||||||
| Enteric or Typhoid. | Puerperal. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||
| Southgate | 3027 | 3550 | 79 | Under 5 | 3 | 2 | Totals | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||||
| 5 | 16 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| New Southgate | 3102 | 3381 | 88 | Under 5 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 4 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||||
| 5 upwds | 15 | 3 | 2 | ... | 3 | 23 | ||||||||||||
| Winchmore Hill | 2762 | 3656 | 68 | Under 5 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
| 5 upwds | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| Bowes | 1731 | 3413 | 75 | Under 5 | 2 | 3 | ... | ... | 5 | 32 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
| 5 upwds | 10 | 13 | 4 | 27 | ||||||||||||||
| Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospital at Winchmore Hill | 348 | 800 | Under 5 | [3119 | 854] | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||
| 5 upwds | ||||||||||||||||||
| Totals | 10970 | 14000 | 310 | Under 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | ... | ... | 14 | 79 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| 5 upwds | 27 | 21 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 65 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |||||
‡ These Figures are not taken into account in estimating the population of the District.
"Notification of Infectious Disease" has been compulsory in the District since 1889.
The Isolation Hospital used by the District is situated at Enfield (outside the District).