Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham for the year 1901
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BOROUGHS. | Estimated Population in the middle of 1001. | Small-Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria (including Membraneous Croup). | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Continued Fever. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. |
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Administrative County of London | 4,544,983 | 1,700 | 18,381 | 12,156 | 20 | 3,194 | 48 | 3 | 4,604 | 253 |
Paddington | 144,200 | 21 | 505 | 340 | — | 92 | ' — | — | 141 | 13 |
Kensington | 176,821 | 14 | 475 | 251 | 2 | 99 | 8 | — | 171 | 10 |
Hammersmith | 112,631 | 45 | 346 | 226 | — | 77 | 2 | — | 116 | 3 |
Fulham | 138,448 | 16 | 600 | 644 | — | 133 | 1 | 1 | 132 | 7 |
Chelsea | 73,876 | 5 | 190 | 107 | — | 41 | — | — | 47 | 4 |
Westminster | 182,567 | 100 | 478 | 255 | — | 105 | 2 | — | 117 | 6 |
St. Marylebone | 133,053 | 79 | 397 | 259 | — | 82 | — | — | 183 | 4 |
Hampstead | 82,300 | 7 | 218 | 153 | — | 50 | 1 | — | 48 | 5 |