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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hammersmith 1903
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1903
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The following Table compiled from the return of the Metropolitan Asylums Board gives the cases of Infectious Disease notified in the several Metropolitan Boroughs in the fifty-two weeks ended Saturday, 2nd January, 1904.*
| Name of Borough. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Other Continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Membrous Croup. | Cholera. | Totals. | Population, 1901. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West. | * Hammersmith . | 7 | 317 | 163 | 59 | .. | 1 | 5 | 110 | 3 | .. | 665 | 112239 |
| Kensington | 5 | 330 | 158 | 61 | .. | 1 | 4 | 177 | 2 | .. | 738 | 176628 | |
| Paddington | 5 | 417 | 147 | 43 | .. | 3 | 4 | 119 | 4 | .. | 743 | 143976 | |
| Fulham | 11 | 405 | 288 | 80 | .. | .. | 19 | 116 | 7 | .. | 926 | 137289 | |
| Chelsea | 7 | 209 | 97 | 13 | .. | .. | 6 | 55 | 1 | .. | 388 | 73842 | |
| City of Westminster | 45 | 352 | 185 | 71 | .. | 2 | 5 | 111 | 1 | .. | 772 | 183011 | |
| North. | St. Marylebone | 4 | 414 | 221 | 67 | .. | 4 | 7 | 177 | 8 | .. | 902 | 133301 |
| Hampstead | 1 | 174 | 86 | 29 | .. | .. | 1 | 41 | .. | .. | 332 | 81942 | |
| St. Pancras | 31 | 659 | 514 | 88 | .. | .. | 5 | 224 | 8 | .. | 1529 | 235317 | |
| Islington | 12 | 867 | 456 | 131 | .. | 2 | 19 | 228 | 3 | .. | 1718 | 334991 | |
| Stoke Newington | 2 | 87 | 38 | 36 | .. | 1 | 2 | 30 | 2 | .. | 198 | 51247 | |
| .Hackney | 4 | 667 | 532 | 271 | .. | 6 | 21 | 281 | 14 | .. | 1796 | 219272 | |
| Central. | Holborn | 2 | 144 | 52 | 54 | .. | 2 | 4 | 90 | .. | .. | 348 | 59405 |
| Finsbury | 2 | 293 | 126 | 52 | .. | .. | 8 | 106 | 3 | .. | 590 | 101463 | |
| City of London | .. | 73 | 27 | 14 | .. | .. | 1 | 10 | .. | .. | 125 | 26923 | |
| East. | Shoreditch | .. | 259 | 149 | 99 | .. | 1 | 7 | 147 | 5 | .. | 667 | 118637 |
| Bethnal Green | 3 | 392 | 231 | 59 | .. | 1 | 6 | 213 | 11 | .. | 918 | 129680 | |
| Stepney | 26 | 878 | 528 | 202 | .. | .. | 11 | 376 | 14 | .. | 2036 | 298600 | |
| Poplar | 28 | 451 | 412 | 93 | .. | .. | 6 | 146 | 13 | .. | 1149 | 168822 | |
| South. | Southwark | 40 | 512 | 345 | 122 | .. | .. | 13 | 239 | 9 | .. | 1280 | 206180 |
| Bermondsey | 7 | 401 | 171 | 76 | 16 | .. | 9 | 182 | 3 | .. | 865 | 130760 | |
| Lambeth | 73 | 751 | 340 | 136 | .. | 7 | 18 | 231 | 9 | .. | 1565 | 301895 | |
| Battersea | 37 | 475 | 308 | 89 | .. | .. | 8 | 150 | 7 | .. | 1074 | 169907 | |
| Wandsworth | 29 | 822 | 526 | 101 | .. | 3 | 13 | 236 | 6 | .. | 1736 | 232034 | |
| Camberwell | 20 | 666 | 363 | 103 | .. | 2 | 6 | 233 | 2 | .. | 1395 | 259339 | |
| Deptford | 2 | 502 | 445 | 31 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 134 | 11 | .. | 1134 | 119398 | |
| Greenwich | 4 | 164 | 204 | 44 | .. | .. | 7 | 73 | 4 | .. | 500 | 95770 | |
| Lewisham | 1 | 463 | 277 | 49 | .. | .. | 8 | 82 | 2 | .. | 882 | 127495 | |
| Woolwich | 6 | 390 | 180 | 42 | .. | 3 | 2 | 58 | 4 | .. | 685 | 117178 | |
| Port of London | 3 | 2 | 2 | 22 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 30 | ||
| Grand Totals | 417 | 12536 | 7571 | 2337 | 22 | 40 | 231 | 4376 | 156 | .. | 27686 | ||
* The figures in this table differ slightly from the revised returns in this report, owing
to subsequent correction of diagnosis and duplicate notifications of some cases.