Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1900
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TABLE XLV. Showing the number of cases of Infectious Diseases notified to the several Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health during the year 1900.
Sanitary Areas. | Notified Cases of Infectious Disease. | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria.* | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Cholera. | Total. | |
LONDON | 88 | 13,809 | 11,994 | 7 | 4,306 | 74 | 237 | 4,771 | 5 | 35,291 |
West Districts. | ||||||||||
Paddington | 5 | 306 | 153 | 2 | 56 | 3 | 6 | 123 | – | 654 |
Kensington | 7 | 366 | 336 | – | 106 | 10 | 9 | 160 | – | 994 |
Hammersmith | 9 | 352 | 252 | – | 103 | 2 | 6 | 113 | – | 830 |
Fulham | 9 | 552 | 642 | – | 92 | 2 | 9 | 153 | – | 1459 |
Chelsea | 2 | 233 | 180 | 1 | 81 | 3 | 7 | 71 | 1 | 579 |
St. George, Hanover-square | 2 | 167 | 91 | – | 55 | 3 | 1 | 47 | – | 366 |
Westminster | – | 122 | 105 | – | 31 | – | 4 | 53 | – | 315 |
St. James, Westminster | – | 62 | 39 | – | 12 | – | – | 16 | – | 129 |
North Districts. | ||||||||||
Marylebone | 5 | 382 | 216 | – | 82 | – | 5 | 200 | – | 890 |
Hampstead | – | 224 | 160 | – | 50 | – | 4 | 50 | – | 488 |
St. Pancras | 7 | 658 | 590 | – | 356 | 1 | 11 | 234 | – | 1857 |
Islington | 2 | 1088 | 637 | 1 | 267 | 6 | 16 | 294 | – | 2311 |
Stoke Newington | – | 126 | 130 | – | 24 | – | 4 | 30 | – | 314 |
Hackney | 16 | 695 | 622 | 1 | 228 | 5 | 15 | 230 | – | 1812 |
Central Districts. | ||||||||||
St. Giles | – | 98 | 60 | – | 33 | – | 1 | 51 | – | 243 |
St. Martin-in-the-Fields | – | 24 | 13 | – | 10 | – | – | 4 | – | 51 |
Strand | – | 79 | 39 | – | 10 | 1 | – | 9 | – | 138 |
Holborn | – | 99 | 67 | – | 24 | 1 | – | 41 | – | 232 |
Clerkenwell | – | 138 | 121 | – | 60 | 1 | 1 | 75 | – | 396 |
St. Luke | – | 96 | 76 | – | 32 | – | 1 | 58 | – | 263 |
City of London | – | 83 | 66 | – | 29 | – | – | 21 | – | 199 |
East Districts. | I I | ... | ||||||||
Shoreditch | 3 | 327 | 354 | – | 126 | 2 | 8 | 171 | – | 991 |
Bethnal Green | 4 | 370 | 407 | – | 153 | 1 | 8 | 234 | – | 1177 |
Whitechapel | 1 | 399 | 262 | 1 | 79 | – | 6 | 128 | – | 876 |
St. George-in-the-East | 7 | 138 | 118 | – | 65 | – | 7 | 85 | – | 420 |
Limehouse | 1 | 172 | 180 | – | 75 | 1 | 2 | 107 | – | 538 |
Mile End Old Town | 1 | 334 | 297 | – | 119 | – | 6 | 176 | – | 933 |
Poplar | 2 | 498 | 645 | 1 | 268 | 2 | 10 | 194 | – | 1620 |
South Districts. | I | |||||||||
St. Saviour, Southwark | – | 82 | 116 | – | 27 | – | 2 | 23 | – | 250 |
St. George, Southwark | – | 251 | 221 | – | 179 | 1 | 3 | 75 | – | 730 |
Newington | 1 | 356 | 447 | – | 101 | – | 10 | 134 | 1 | 1050 |
St. Olave, Southwark | – | 37 | 14 | – | 7 | – | – | 9 | – | 67 |
Bermondsey | – | 258 | 352 | – | 120 | – | 6 | 60 | – | 796 |
Rotherhithe | – | 102 | 113 | – | 77 | – | 3 | 71 | – | 366 |
Lambeth | – | 824 | 849 | – | 279 | 17 | 12 | 238 | 2 | 2221 |
Battersea | – | 545 | 316 | – | 205 | 1 | 6 | 164 | – | 1237 |
Wandsworth | 4 | 673 | 453 | – | 153 | 1 | 15 | 206 | – | 1505 |
Camberwell | 3 | 817 | 901 | – | 186 | 6 | 10 | 216 | – | 2139 |
Greenwich | – | 685 | 522 | – | 177 | 2 | 11 | 239 | – | 1636 |
Lewisham (excluding Penge) | – | 418 | 311 | – | 59 | – | 4 | 70 | – | 862 |
Woolwich | 2 | 134 | 99 | – | 23 | – | 2 | 39 | – | 299 |
Lee | – | 137 | 163 | – | 18 | – | 2 | 24 | – | 344 |
Plumstead | – | 298 | 242 | – | 39 | 2 | 4 | 73 | – | 658 |
Fort of London | 2 | 4 | 17 | – | 30 | – | – | 2 | 11 | 56 |