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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
Richmond upon Thames 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]
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CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1903.
Notifiable Disease
Cases Notified in whole district.
Total Cases Notified in each
Ward.
No. of Cases removed to Hospital
from each Ward.
At all
Ages.
At Ages—Years.
North.
South.
East.
West.
Kew.
North.
South.
East.
West.
Kew.
Under 1.
1 to 5.
5 to 15.
15 t0 25
25 to 65.
65 and
upwards.
Small-pox
1
..
..
..
..
1
..
..
1
..
..
..
..
1
..
..
..
Diphtheria
42
1
14
18
2
7
..
8
7
17
5
5
6
2
12
3
3
Membraneous
croup
1
..
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
..
..
..
..
1
..
Erysipelas
18
..
1
1
1
14
1
1
4
5
5
3
..
..
..
..
..
Scarlet fever
119
3
44
59
11
2
26
11
43
39
21
8
37
35
..
Enteric fever
13
..
••
4
..
9
..
3
1
5
4
..
1
..
3
..
..
Continued fever
1
••
••
..
••
1
..
..
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Totals
195
4
60
82
14
34
1
38
25
70
54
8
28
11
52
39
3
Small-pox Hospital—Dockwell. Middlesex,
Isolation Hospital—Mogden, Middlesex Joint Hospital Committee.
Two of the above cases of Enteric Fever were treated in the Royal Hospital, Richmond.