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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
St Giles (Camden) 1899
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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TABLE VIII.
(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 1899, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. Giles, classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
| Names of Localities adopted for the purpose 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 of health. | Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Last Census. | Estimated to middle of 1899. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |||
| Small-pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | - | - | Small-pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | - | - | |||||||||||||
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| (a). | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. George, | under 5 | — | 6 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 5 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Bloomsbury | 16,110 | — | 256 | 5 upwards | — | 22 | 7 | 1 | — | 11 | — | — | 1 | — | 18 | — | — | — | 11 | 7 | — | — | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. Giles, North | 9,151 | — | 232 | under 5 | — | 7 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 5 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 upwards | — | 12 | 4 | — | — | 8 | — | — | — | — | 7 | — | — | — | 10 | 2 | — | — | 6 | — | — | —_ | — | — | — | — | ||||
| St. Giles, South | 12,976 | — | 641 | under 5 | — | 16 | 7 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 15 | 7 | _— | — | 1 | — | _— | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 upwards | — | 13 | 3 | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | 13 | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| St. Giles | under 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Workhouse | — | — | — | 5 upwards | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| British Lying-in | under 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Hospital | — | — | — | 5 upwards | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| under 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| French Hospital | — | — | — | 5 upwards | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Totals | 38,237 | — | 1132 | Under | — | 29 | 13 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | 25 | 11 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 upwards | — | 47 | 14 | 1 | — | 22 | — | — | 1 | — | 53 | — | — | — | 32 | 12 | — | — | 17 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
State here whether "Notification of Infectious Disease" is compulsory in the District.—Yes. Since when?—31st October, 1889. Besides the above-mentioned
Diseases, insert in the columns with blank headings the names of any other diseases that are notifiable in the District, and fill the columns accordingly. State here
the name of the Isolation Hospital used by the sick of the District. Mark (H) the Locality in which such Hospital is situated; or if not within the District,
state where it is situated ?—The Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals.