London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Kensington 1903
The annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1903
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| Name of Borough. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Other Continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Membranous Croup. | Cholera. | Totals. | Population 1901. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West. | Kensington | 5 | 330 | 158 | 61 | 1 | 4 | 177 | 2 | 738 | 176,628 | ||
| Paddington | 5 | 417 | 147 | 43 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 119 | 4 | 743 | 143,976 | ||
| Hammersmith | 7 | 317 | 163 | 59 | 1 | 5 | 110 | 3 | 665 | 112,239 | |||
| Fulham | 11 | 405 | 288 | 80 | 19 | 116 | 7 | 926 | 137,289 | ||||
| Chelsea | 7 | 209 | 97 | 13 | 6 | 55 | 1 | 388 | 73,842 | ||||
| City of Westminster | 45 | 352 | 185 | 71 | 2 | 5 | 111 | 1 | 772 | 183,011 | |||
| North. | St. Marylebone | 4 | 414 | 221 | 67 | 4 | 7 | 177 | 8 | 902 | 133,301 | ||
| Hampstead | 1 | 174 | 86 | 29 | 1 | 41 | 332 | 81,942 | |||||
| St. Pancras | 31 | 659 | 514 | 88 | 5 | 224 | 8 | 1,529 | 235,317 | ||||
| Islington | 12 | 867 | 456 | 131 | 2 | 19 | 228 | 3 | 1,718 | 334,991 | |||
| Stoke Newington | 2 | 87 | 38 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 2 | 198 | 51,247 | |||
| Hackney | 4 | 667 | 532 | 271 | 6 | 21 | 281 | 14 | 1,796 | 219,272 | |||
| Central. | Holborn | 2 | 144 | 52 | 54 | 2 | 4 | 90 | 348 | 59,405 | |||
| Finsbury | 2 | 293 | 126 | 52 | 8 | 106 | 3 | 590 | 101,463 | ||||
| City of London | 73 | 27 | 14 | 1 | 10 | 125 | 26,923 | ||||||
| East. | Shoreditch | 259 | 149 | 99 | 1 | 7 | 147 | 5 | 667 | 118,637 | |||
| Bethnal Green | 3 | 392 | 231 | 59 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 213 | 11 | 918 | 129,680 | ||
| Stepney | 26 | 878 | 528 | 202 | 1 | 11 | 376 | 14 | 2,036 | 298,600 | |||
| Poplar | 28 | 451 | 412 | 93 | 6 | 146 | 13 | 1,149 | 168,822 | ||||
| South. | Southwark | 40 | 512 | 345 | 122 | 13 | 239 | 9 | 1,280 | 206,180 | |||
| Bermondsey | 7 | 401 | 171 | 76 | 16 | 9 | 182 | 3 | 865 | 130,760 | |||
| Lambeth | 73 | 751 | 340 | 136 | 7 | 18 | 231 | 9 | 1,565 | 301,895 | |||
| Battersea | 37 | 475 | 308 | 89 | 8 | 150 | 7 | 1,074 | 169,907 | ||||
| Wandsworth | 29 | 822 | 526 | 101 | 3 | 13 | 236 | 6 | 1,736 | 232,034 | |||
| Camberwell | 20 | 666 | 363 | 103 | 2 | 6 | 233 | 2 | 1,395 | 259,339 | |||
| Deptford | 2 | 502 | 445 | 31 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 134 | 11 | 1,134 | 110,398 | ||
| Greenwich | 4 | 164 | 204 | 44 | 7 | 73 | 4 | 500 | 95,770 | ||||
| Lewisham | 1 | 463 | 277 | 49 | 8 | 82 | 2 | 882 | 127,495 | ||||
| Woolwich | 6 | 390 | 180 | 42 | 3 | 2 | 58 | 4 | 685 | 117,178 | |||
| Port of London | 3 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 1 | 30 | |||||||
| Grand Totals | 417 | 12,536 | 7,571 | 2,337 | 22 | 40 | 231 | 4,376 | 156 | 27,686 | |||
* The figures in this and the following table, collated from the Asylums Board's weekly returns, differ slightly
from the revised returns issued by the Registrar-General as shown in the table at foot of page 32.