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St Giles (Camden) 1899
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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tificates, including 17 duplicates, were received from Medical Practitioners; the numbers are scheduled under the heading of their several diseases as follows.
| Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Cholera. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases notified | – | 76 | 27 | 1 | – | 23 | – | 1 | 56 | – | 184 |
| Duplicates | – | 4 | 5 | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | 5 | – | 17 |
| Total Certificates | – | 80 | 32 | 2 | – | 25 | – | 1 | 61 | – | 201 |
With regard to the notified cases of infectious diseases
in London among the various similar areas in which the
patients had previously resided, it appears that the
proportion of persons reported to be suffering from one or
other of the ten diseases in the table above was equal to 9.3
per 1,000 of the population estimated at 4,546,752 persons
in the middle of the year. The lowest rate was St. Giles
5.0, and the highest 15.4 in Plumstead.
Infectious Diseases.—Removals to Hospitals.
The number of patients suffering from infectious diseases removed from the District to the Institutions of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, the various Public Hospitals, and Private Nursing Institutions is shown in the following table:—
| Diseases. | Asylums Board. | General Hospitals and nursing Institutions. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 50 | 7 | 57 |
| Diphtheria | 16 | 7 | 23 |
| Enteric Fever | 9 | 9 | 18 |
| Total | 75 | 23 | 98 |