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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 Luke 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Luke, Middlesex]

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Table: Admissions and deaths at the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals, the Highgate Small-pox Hospital, and the London Fever Hospital of persons suffering from Small-pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria and Enteric Fever, 1890-1899:—

Admissions and deaths at the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals, the Highgate Small-pox Hospital, and the London Fever Hospital of persons suffering from Small-pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria and Enteric Fever, 1890-1899:—

Years.Small-pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.
Admissions.Deaths.Admissions.Deaths.Admissions.Deaths.Admissions.Deaths.
18916785,6013601,330399759108
18923663813,6868502,02158443065
18932,54619015,3129182,853866544110
18941,22610811,8927253,6911,04153896
18959716511,8006013,688824661119
1896211816,6276744,58095660096
1897731315,5506285,726993664124
18985—12,4565216,615996869143
189918313,7443598,7581,1931,536241
190066310,6923157,9669911,728245

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Whooping Cough was the cause of 33 deaths, being a greater
number than it has been my duty to record for the past 7 years.
During the previous three years respectively 13, 24 and 27 deaths
were certified. The deaths from this disease in London numbered
1,948, and was equal to a death-rate of 0.43 per 1,000 living, the
mean rate for the previous ten years having been 0.53 per 1,000.
In the Registrar-General's Annual Summary just issued, St.
Luke is classed amongst the London Sanitary areas which during
the past year yielded the highest death-rate from Whooping
Cough, viz., 0.86 and was only exceeded in Limehouse with 0.95
per 1,000.
Whooping Cough not being a notifiable disease, I am unable
to state the amount of sickness due to it during the year.