Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fifty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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1909
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Table CVIII. Showing the Attack-Rates of the Infectious Diseases notified, in the several Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs during the year 1909.
Cities and Boroughs. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. * | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other Continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. | Total Attack-Rate. |
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London | 0.00 | 3.58 | 1.39 | 0.00 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.87 | .. | 6.12 |
West Districts. | ||||||||||
Paddington | .. | 4.16 | 1.21 | .. | 0.19 | .. | 0.02 | 0.70 | .. | 6.28 |
Kensington | .. | 2.29 | 0.97 | .. | 0.26 | .. | 0.04 | 0.74 | .. | 4.30 |
Hammersmith | .. | 3.10 | 1.53 | .. | 0.13 | .. | 0.11 | 0.61 | .. | 5.48 |
Fulham | .. | 2.91 | 1.83 | .. | 0.23 | 0.01 | 0.19 | 0.65 | .. | 5.82 |
Chelsea | .. | 4.09 | 1.31 | .. | 0.16 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.53 | .. | 6.13 |
City of Westminster | 0.01 | 3.50 | 1.34 | .. | 0.15 | .. | 0.03 | 0.61 | .. | 5.64 |
North Districts. | ||||||||||
St. Marylebone | .. | 3.64 | 0.90 | .. | 0.17 | .. | 0.02 | 1.07 | .. | 5.80 |
Hampstead | .. | 2.76 | 0.50 | .. | 0.17 | .. | 0.05 | 0.32 | .. | 3.80 |
St. Pancras | 0.00 | 3.26 | 1.35 | .. | 0.21 | .. | 0.06 | 0.65 | .. | 5.53 |
Islington | 0.01 | 3.66 | 1.22 | 0.00 | 0.27 | .. | 0.04 | 0.63 | .. | 5.83 |
Stoke Newington | .. | 2.03 | 0.52 | .. | 0.20 | .. | 0.07 | 0.50 | .. | 3.32 |
Hackney | 0.00 | 3.31 | 1.11 | .. | 0.25 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 1.14 | .. | 5.87 |
Central District, | ||||||||||
Holborn | 0.02 | 1.81 | 0.88 | .. | 0.30 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.76 | .. | 3.85 |
Finsbury | .. | 2.53 | 1.76 | 0.01 | 0.14 | .. | 0.05 | 1.39 | .. | 5.88 |
City of London | 0.06 | 2.09 | 1.05 | .. | 0.22 | .. | 0.06 | 0.55 | .. | 4.03 |
East Districts | ||||||||||
Shoreditch | .. | 2.97 | 1.62 | .. | 0.45 | .. | 0.12 | 1.26 | .. | 6.42 |
Bethnal Green | 0.01 | 4.32 | 1.40 | .. | 0.25 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 1.25 | .. | 7.29 |
Stepney | 0.03 | 3.33 | 1.87 | 0.01 | 0.23 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 1.56 | .. | 7.07 |
Poplar | .. | 4.26 | 1.24 | .. | 0.31 | .. | 0.08 | 1.03 | .. | 6.92 |
South Districts. | ||||||||||
Southwark | 0 01 | 2.80 | 1.22 | .. | 0.17 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 1.06 | .. | 5.29 |
Bermondsey | 3.61 | 1.55 | 0.02 | 0.24 | .. | 0.06 | 1.12 | .. | 6.60 | |
Lambeth | 3.62 | 1.17 | .. | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.05 | 0.59 | .. | 5.58 | |
Battersea | 3.95 | 1.55 | .. | 0.29 | .. | 0.08 | 0.84 | .. | 6.71 | |
Wandsworth | 3.36 | 1.25 | .. | 0.22 | 0.01 | 0.09 | 0.65 | .. | 5.58 | |
Cambtrwell | 0 00 | 3.62 | 1.33 | .. | 0.17 | .. | 0.05 | 0.83 | .. | 6.00 |
Deptford | .. | 3.16 | 1.65 | .. | 0.28 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 1.53 | .. | 6.72 |
Greenwich | 3.52 | 1.47 | .. | 0.27 | 0.02 | 0.07 | 0.86 | .. | 6.21 | |
Lewisham | 0 01 | 5.87 | 2.42 | .. | 0.11 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.66 | .. | 9.01 |
Woolwich | .. | 7.72 | 2.01 | .. | 0.09 | .. | 0.07 | 0.76 | .. | 1065 |
Port of London | .. | .. | ? | .. | ? | ? | .. | ? | .. | ? |
* Including Membranous Croup.