Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton]
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N.B.—The four columns marked * have been inserted to show the birth, death, and infantile mortality rates of Sutton excluding the public institutions in the district.
Institutions within the District receiving sick and infirm persons from outside the District. | Institutions outside the District receiving sick and infirm persons from the District. | Other Institutions, the deaths in which have been distributed among the several localities in the District. |
---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 |
Fulham Union Workhouse, Belmont | County Asylums | The Cottage Hospital, Sutton |
Metropolitan Asylums Board Ringworm Schools | Epsom Union Workhouse | The Cottage Hospital, Carshalton |
The Cottage Hospital. | Cuddington Isolation Hospital |
The Union Workhouse is in the Epsom Urban District.
Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified in Whole District. | Total Cases Removed to Hospital * | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
At alt Ages. | At Ages—Years. | |||||||
Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | |||
Small pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 10 | .. | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | .. | 6 |
Erysipelas | 6 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 5 | .. | .. |
Scarlet Fever | 28 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 4 | .. | .. | 15 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. |
Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Totals | 49 | 1 | 9 | 22 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 23 |
* Isolation Hospital, Sutton, Carshalton, and Leatherhead (Urban) and Epsom (Rural)
Districts Joint Hospital at Cuddington.
Total available beds, 92. Number of diseases that can be concurrently treated, 3.