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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 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]
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CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR
| Notifiable Disease | Cases Notified in whole district. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward. | No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Ward. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Ages—Years | North. | South | East. | West. | Kew. | North | South. | East. | West | Kew. | |||||||
| At all Ages. | Under 1. | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65 | 65 and upwards. | |||||||||||
| Diphtheria | 11 | . . | 5 | 3 | 3 | .. | .. | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .. | 4 | .. | 2 | 2 | .. |
| Erysipelas | 23 | 1 | .. | 2 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Scarlet fever | 46 | .. | 14 | 20 | 6 | 6 | .. | 21 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 20 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 2 |
| Typhus Fever | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Enteric fever | 13 | .. | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | .. | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. |
| Puerperal fever | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Totals | 96 | 1 | 21 | 26 | 18 | 28 | 2 | 42 | 9 | 22 | 13 | 10 | 27 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 2 |
Small-pox Hospital—Dock well, Middlesex.
Isolation Hospital- Mogden, Middlesex Joint Hospital Committee.
Two of the above cases of Enteric Fever and the case of Typhus Fever were treated in the Royal Hospital, Richmond
The Workhouse is situated in the South Ward,