Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1897
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TABLE No. 9.
Local Authorities in whose Districts the cases were resident. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Other Continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Croup. | Cholera. | Totals. | Population 1896. |
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Kensington | 14 | 1011 | 360 | 94 | .. | 6 | 9 | 277 | 11 | .. | 1782 | 170,465 |
Battersea | 8 | 1194 | 416 | 115 | .. | 1 | 12 | 269 | 26 | .. | 2041 | 165,115 |
Bermondsey | 5 | 403 | 265 | 70 | .. | .. | 5 | 134 | 8 | .. | 890 | 85,475 |
Bethnal Green | 2 | 1344 | 466 | 134 | .. | 3 | 14 | 343 | 36 | .. | 2342 | 129,162 |
Camberwell | 13 | 1241 | 1447 | 179 | 3 | .. | 17 | 330 | 24 | 1 | 3255 | 253,076 |
Chelsea | 2 | 595 | 534 | 69 | .. | 2 | 8 | 126 | .. | 1343 | 96,646 | |
Clerkenwell | 12 | 482 | 259 | 66 | .. | .. | 6 | 118 | 12 | .. | 955 | 66,202 |
Fulbam | 2 | 649 | 358 | 58 | .. | 5 | 9 | 115 | 14 | 2 | 1212 | 113,781 |
Greenwich (including Deptford | 15 | 1193 | 839 | 118 | .. | 3 | 21 | 248 | 17 | .. | 2454 | 175,774 |
Hackney | 10 | 1617 | 595 | 212 | .. | 7 | 6 | 337 | 25 | .. | 2809 | 213,044 |
Hammersmith | 4 | 557 | 223 | 53 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 135 | 9 | .. | 995 | 104,199 |
Hampstead | .. | 308 | 218 | 58 | .. | 2 | 6 | 55 | 5 | .. | 652 | 75,449 |
Holborn | 1 | 143 | 81 | 32 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 79 | 4 | .. | 345 | 31,208 |
Islington | 59 | 2189 | 1152 | 258 | .. | 6 | 32 | 423 | 25 | .. | 4144 | 336,764 |
Lambeth | 21 | 1660 | 713 | 172 | 1 | 15 | 22 | 376 | 34 | 6 | 3020 | 295,033 |
Lee | 1 | 173 | 77 | 28 | .. | .. | 6 | 37 | .. | .. | 322 | 38,588 |
Lewisham | 2 | 356 | 374 | 65 | .. | .. | 9 | 84 | 4 | .. | 894 | 83,213 |
Limehouse | 7 | 373 | 284 | 28 | .. | 1 | 5 | 119 | 6 | .. | 823 | 58,305 |
Mile End | 3 | 809 | 594 | 123 | .. | 2 | 5 | 209 | 10 | .. | 1755 | 111,060 |
Newington | 4 | 694 | 402 | 89 | .. | 1 | 9 | 202 | 21 | .. | 1422 | 120,939 |
Paddington | 7 | 853 | 257 | 68 | .. | 1 | 11 | 125 | 8 | .. | 1330 | 124,506 |
Plumstead | 4 | 367 | 200 | 29 | .. | 3 | 4 | 44 | 8 | 1 | 660 | 59,252 |
Poplar | 9 | 996 | 697 | 197 | .. | 9 | 8 | 338 | 30 | 1 | 2285 | 169,267 |
Rotherhithe | 8 | 212 | 127 | 59 | .. | .. | 6 | 121 | 5 | 1 | 539 | 40,379 |
Shoreditch | 1 | 728 | 370 | 120 | .. | 9 | 3 | 305 | 21 | .. | 1557 | 122,348 |
St. George-in-the-East | 2 | 424 | 239 | 35 | .. | 1 | 2 | 101 | 6 | .. | 810 | 47,506 |
St. George, Hanover Square | 1 | 380 | 146 | 59 | .. | 1 | 3 | 60 | ii | .. | 650 | 79,967 |
St. George-the-Martyr | 3 | 344 | 187 | 53 | .. | .. | 4 | 103 | .. | 705 | 60,278 | |
St. Giles, Bloomsbury | .. | 190 | 61 | 25 | .. | .. | 1 | 100 | 4 | .. | 381 | 38,237 |
St. James, Westminster | 3 | 82 | 37 | 6 | .. | .. | 2 | 24 | 3 | .. | 157 | 23,050 |
St. Luke. Middlesex | 2 | 278 | 141 | 41 | .. | 2 | 2 | 154 | 3 | .. | 623 | 41,527 |
St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 1 | 73 | 15 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 1 | .. | 123 | 13,077 | |
St. Marylebone | 4 | 896 | 313 | 118 | .. | .. | 3 | 266 | 7 | .. | 1607 | 141,188 |
St. Olave, Southwark | .. | 65 | 46 | 10 | .. | .. | .. | 21 | 1 | .. | 143 | 11,731 |
St. Pancras | 6 | 1183 | 528 | 216 | .. | 25 | 383 | 14 | .. | 2356 | 240,764 | |
St. Saviour, Southwark | 4 | 145 | 86 | 9 | .. | .. | 1 | 36 | 1 | .. | 282 | 25,365 |
Stoke Newington | 2 | 240 | 83 | 17 | .. | .. | 1 | 42 | 4 | .. | 389 | 33,485 |
Strand | .. | 132 | 36 | 8 | .. | .. | 1 | 11 | 1 | .. | 189 | 23,782 |
Wandsworth | 2 | 1032 | 306 | 107 | .. | 9 | 12 | 277 | 4 | 1 | 1750 | 187,264 |
Westminster | 2 | 236 | 118 | 40 | .. | 2 | .. | 85 | 4 | .. | 487 | 53,234 |
Whitechapel | 5 | 740 | 393 | 66 | .. | .. | 2 | 156 | 15 | .. | 1377 | 77,717 |
Woolwich | 1 | 147 | 101 | 21 | .. | 3 | 1 | 45 | 2 | .. | 321 | 41,314 |
City of London | 3 | 236 | 74 | 24 | .. | 1 | .. | 34 | 1 | .. | 373 | 30,970 |
Port of London | 5 | 5 | 6 | 17 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 35 | .. |
Grand Totals | 260 | 26975 | 14224 | 3384 | 6 | 103 | 306 | 6861 | 452 | 13 | 52584 |