Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark]
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18 Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
Table XII.
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 Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. George's, Southwark;
classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
NOTE—The Population and Birth Columns that come first below are estimated on a Sub-District basis, while the rest of the figures are worked out in Ward Divisions as that is the
practice followed by the Vestry.
Name of Localities adopted
for the purpose of these Statistics;
Public Institutions being
shown as separate localities.
Population at
all ages.
Itegistered Births.
Aged under 5 or
over 5.
New Cases or Sickness in each Locality coming to
the knowledge or the medical officer of health
Number of such Cases Removed from their homes
in the several localities FOR treatment in
Isolation Hospital.
Smnll-pox.
Scarlatina.
Diphtheria
Membranous.
Croup
Fevers.
Cholera.
Erysipelas.
Small-pox.
Scarlatina.
Diphtheria.
Membranous
Croup
Fevers.
Cholera
Erysipelas.
Last
Census
Estimated
to
middle
of 1898.
Typhus
Enteric or
Typhoid.
Continued
Relapsing.
Puerperal.
Typhus.
Enteric or
Typhoid.
Continued.
Relapsing.
Puerperal.
Borough Rond
16,083
15,822
626
Under 5
...
11
51
...
...
3
1
...
...
1
6
...
...
...
31
43
...
1
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
5 upwds.
...
74
68
2
1
18
...
...
2
...
27
...
...
...
68
6l
1
18
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
London Road
21,316
21,333
681
Under 5
...
30
21
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
15
26
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
5 upwds.
...
30
33
...
...
5
...
...
1
...
12
...
...
...
24
28
...
...
1
...
...
1
•••
...
...
...
Kent Road
22,879
23,308
828
Under 5
...
51
23
3
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
16
26
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
5 upwds.
...
80
2 3
2
...
11
...
...
2
...
16
...
...
...
73
17
...
2
5
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Evelina Hospital
...
...
...
Under 5
...
.. .
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
5 upwds.
...
1
2
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
1
2
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
lit. George's Workhouse
...
...
•••
Under 5
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
5 upwds.
...
...
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
6
...
...
...
...
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
6
...
...
King Edward School
...
...
...
Under 5
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
5 upwds.
...
...
4
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
4
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
School for theBlind
...
...
•••
Under 5
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
5 upwds.
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
Royal EyeHospital
...
...
-
Under 5
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
•••
...
...
...
5 upwds
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
l
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Totals
60,278
60,166
2138
Under
...
125
103
1
...
4
1
...
...
3
7
...
...
...
95
95
3
...
1
1
...
...
•••
...
...
5 upwds
...
186
138
1
2
36
...
...
5
...
63
...
...
...
164
115
1
3
26
...
...
1
...
8
...
...