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 the year 1902
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Table No. 5. SHOWING DISTRIBUTION OF SMALL-POX CASES. DURING THE OUTBREAK, WITH PROPORTIONATE INCIDENCE IN EACH METROPOLITAN BOROUGH.
BOROUGHS. | Estimated Population in – the middle of 1902. | 1901. | 1902. | Total. | Rate per 10000 Population. | ||||
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2nd quarter | 3rd quarter | 4th quarter | 1st quarter | 2nd quarter | 3rd quarter | ||||
West— | — I | – | * | ||||||
Paddington | 145107 | ... | 4 | 17 | 62 | 45 | 6 | 134 | 9.2 |
Kensington | 177605 | ... | 4 | 10 | 43 | 47 | 9 | 113 | 6.3 |
Hammersmith | 114210 | ... | 4 | 41 | 61 | 27 | 8 | 141 | 12.3 |
Fulham | 143102 | ... | ... | 15 | 54 | 31 | 6 | 106 | 7.4 |
Chelsea | 74018 | ... | 2 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 1 | 44 | 5.9 |
City of Westminster | 180800 | ... | 9 | 91 | 174 | 56 | 2 | 332 | 18.4 |
North— | |||||||||
St. Marylebone | 132069 | 2 | 41 | 36 | 111 | 39 | 3 | 232 | 17.5 |
Hampstead | 83743 | ... | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 26 | 3.1 |
St. Pancras | 235596 | 1 | 101 | 153 | 227 | 118 | 15 | 515 | 26.1 |
Islington | 337268 | 1 | 13 | 48 | 137 | 141 | 16 | 346 | 10.5 |
Stoke Newington | 51700 | ... | 7 | 12 | 38 | 11 | 2 | 70 | 13.7 |
Hackney | 221926 | 1 | 18 | 22 | 196 | 221 | 3 | 461 | 20.8 |
Central— | |||||||||
Holborn | 58535 | ... | 18 | 198 | 186 | 29 | 3 | 434 | 73.1 |
Finsbury | 100487 | ... | 14 | 79 | 131 | 31 | 48 | 303 | 30.3 |
City of London | 25598 | ... | 2 | 6 | 19 | 11 | 9 | 47 | 18.8 |
East— | |||||||||
Shoreditch | 117980 | ... | 2 | 16 | 313 | 118 | 7 | 456 | 38.9 |
Bethnal Green | 129889 | 1 | 3 | 28 | 276 | 199 | 39 | 546 | 42.3 |
Stepney | 300551 | 1 | 4 | 155 | 929 | 417 | 38 | 1544 | 51.3 |
Poplar | 169214 | ... | 2 | 68 | 332 | 282 | 15 | 699 | 41.3 |
South— | |||||||||
Southwark | 206825 | ... | 7 | 82 | 251 | 260 | 7 | 607 | 29.4 |
Bermondsey | 130218 | ... | ... | 107 | 101 | 107 | 15 | 330 | 25.3 |
Lambeth | 305102 | ... | 3 | 48 | 189 | 141 | 24 | 415 | 13.6 |
Battersea | 171401 | ... | ... | 53 | 99 | 66 | 23 | 241 | 14.0 |
Wandsworth | 241810 | ... | 8 | 23 | 70 | 54 | 7 | 162 | 6.7 |
Camberwell | 262775 | ... | ... | 54 | 147 | 190 | 17 | 408 | 15.5 |
Deptford | 111577 | ... | ... | 4 | 71 | 62 | 10 | 147 | 11.2 |
Greenwich | 98013 | ... | ... | 11 | 58 | 34 | 7 | 110 | 11.2 |
Lewisham | 132432 | ... | 2 | 10 | 50 | 33 | 5 | 100 | 7.5 |
Woolwich | 119556 | ... | 1 | 22 | 111 | 116 | 7 | 257 | 21.5 |
Port of London | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 15 | ... |
Total | 4579107 | 7 | 272 | 1416 | 4475 | 2928 | 353 | 9451 | 20.6 |