London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Clerkenwell 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]
This page requires JavaScript
| Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public inatrations being shown as separate localities. (See Note 2 on back of Sheet.) | Population at all Ages. | Registered Births. | Aged under 5 or over 5. | New Oases or Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of thb 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 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 7 | 1 8 | 1 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |||
| Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | Typhus. | Enteric or T\phoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | Cholera. | Erysipelas | ||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c)1 | (d) | (e) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gobwell Sub-Registration Dietrict | 15,375 | 16,069 | 540 | Under 5 | 28 | 31 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 30 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 46 | 40 | 9 | 13 | 43 | 38 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. James' Sub-Registration District | 16,803 | 15,777 | 472 | Under 5 | 47 | 32 | 3 | 1 | 47 | 29 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 43 | 43 | 13 | 20 | 41 | 38 | 13 ! | 4 | ...... | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Amwell Sub-Registration District | 34,038 | 34,356 | 1080 | Under 5 | 55 | 52 | 1 | 5 | 47 | 47 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 102 | 70 | 16 | 1 | 32 | 89 | 63 | 11 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Totals | 66,216 | 66,202 | 2,092 | Under 5 | 130 | 115 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 121 | 106 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds. | 191 | 153 | 38 | 2 | 65 | 173 | 139 | 32 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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. Slate here the name of the Isolation Hospital used by the sick
of the District. Mark (H) 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.