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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

West Ham 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham Borough]

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Table: (B.) —Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1895, in the West Ham Urban Sanitary District, classified accordingto Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

(B.) —Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1895, in the West Ham Urban Sanitary District, classified according

to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the urpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all Ages.Registered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the medical officer ok health. Fevers.Number of such Cases Removed fpom their Homes in the several localities for treatment in Isolation Hospital. Fevers.
Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1895.Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Cholera.Erysipelas.Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Cholera.Erysipelas.
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Stratford Ward42,98246,00918,591Under 5...6818......6...........................1..............................
5 upwds.216988......64......3............2....................................
Forest Gate Ward ...49,32257.828Under 5...6461......4............................................................
5 upwds.18351188......61......1.............123.................................
Plaistow Ward57.84873.260Under 537795......9............................................................
5 upwds.17244200......89......2............15....................................
Carming Town Ward54.75061,903Under 51213490......14.....................121.................................
5 upwds.75297110......73......5............751.................................
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Totals204,902239,0008.591Under 5......264......33....................................•••.....................
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