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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
St Giles (Camden) 1891
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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(B.)—Table op Population, Births, and of new Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the Knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the Year 1891, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. Giles, classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.*
| names of locali-ti ps adopted, for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being show n as separate localities. | Population at all Age. | Registered Births. | Aged under 5 or over 5. | New Cases of Sicknfss in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the medical officer of health. | Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the severalLocalities for treatment in isolation hospital | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ! 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||||
| Census 1891. | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera (nostras) | Erysipelas. | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | cholera (nostras) | Erysipelas. | |||||||||||||||
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing.. | Puerperal. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (6) | (c) | (d)† | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. George Bloom sbury | 16,695 | 342 | under 5 5 upwards | - | 50 | 11 | - | - | 8 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 10 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| St. Giles, South | 13,450 | 533 | under 5 5 upwards | - | 34 | 11 | - | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| St. Giles, North | 9,633 | 271 | under 5 5 upwards | 1 | 16 | 4 | - | - | 10 | - | - | - | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Workhouse, Broad Street | under 5 5 upwards | - | 1 | - | - | - | — | — | - | 1 | — | 24 | — | — | 56 | 19 | - | — | 14 | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | - | |||
| British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street | under 5 5 upw ards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| French Hospital, Shaftesbury Avenue | under 5 5 upwards | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Totals | 39,778 | 1,146 | under 5 5 upwards | 1 | 103 | 26 | - | - | 27 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 61 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
State here whether "Notification of Infectious Disease" is compulsory in the District.—Yes. Sincc when?—October 31st, 1889. Besides the above-mentioned Diseases,
insert in the columns with blank headings the names of any that are notifiable in the District, and fill the columns accordingly. State here the name of the Isolation
Hospital used by the sick of the District. Mark (H.) the Locality in which such Hospital is situated; and if not in the District, state where it is situated?—Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospital, The Western Fever Hospital, Segrave Road, Fulham, S.W. This Return also includes Admission of Infectious Diseases into General
Hospitals.
* In addition to the 221 cases tabulated, 23 duplicate certificates were received, viz.: Scarlet Fever, 20; Diphtheria, 1; Enteric Fever, 1; and Erysipelas, 1.
† Col. (d).—The ages of the patients were not given in the notification certificates.