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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

Wimbledon 1894

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Table: TABLE 4.Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1894, in the Urban Sanitary District of Wimbledon classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

TABLE 4.

Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1894, in the Urban Sanitary District of Wimbledon classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Names of Localities.Population at all ages.Registered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New cases of sickness coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number of such cases removed to Hospital.
123456123
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Enteric or Typhoid Fever.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.
Census, 1891.Estimatd to Middle of 1894.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
WIMBLEDON25,75830,0007942413...23...1710
5 upw'ds169301104015417
ATKINSON MORLEY'S HOSPITALYearly average Number of Patients 961.under 5...........................
5 upw'ds...............2.........
COTTAGE HOSPITALYearly average Number of Patients 100.under 5...........................
5 upw'ds............1............
TOTALSunder 5...2413...23...1710
5 upw'ds1693011142l5417