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Clerkenwell 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]
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(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 1897, in the Clerkenwell Metropolitan District; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
Names or Localities
adopted for the purpose of
these Statiatics; public institutions
being shown as
separate localities.
(Set Soft 2 on back of
Sheet.)
Population at
ai.l 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.
Census 1891.
Etimated to
middle of
1897.
1
2
3
4 1
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
1
2
3
4
5
6 | 7
8
9
10
11
12
Smallpox.
Scarlatina.
Diphtheria.
Membranous
Croup.
Fevers.
Cholera.
Erysipelas.
Smallpox.
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)
Goswell sub-Registration
District
16,376
16,069
540
Under 5
27
23
2
24
21
5 upwds
44
39
24
15
38
28
22
St. James' Sub-Registration
District
16,803
15,777
472
Under 5
33
57
1
1
1
31
54
1
1
5 upwds
75
82
1
23
30
68
66
19
Amwell Sub-Registration
District
34,038
34,356
1080
Under 5
59
48
1
1
4
53
36
1
1
5 upwds
125
86
1
16
1
38
104
69
8
Totals
66,216
66,202
2,092
Under 6
119
128
2
2
7
108
111
2
2
5 upwds
244
207
2
63
1
83
210
163
49
State here whether "Notification of Infectious Disease" is compulsory in the District, Yes. Since when? 1889. Besides the above mentioned Diseases, insert in the
columns with blank headings the names of any 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. &ark (B) the Locality in which such. Hospital is situated; and if not within the District, state where it is situated, Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
*Enumerated Population in 1896.