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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
Islington 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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[1914
| Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population in the middle of 1914. | Notified Cases of Infectious Diseases. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria.* | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever, | Erysipelas. | Cerebro-spinal meningitis. | Other Notifiable 5 Infectious Diseases. | Totals. Columns 1 to 8. | ||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |||
| LONDON | 4 518,021 | 3 | 25,015 | 9,118 | 1 | 779 | 18 | 393 | 4,970 | 73 | 989 | 40,297 |
| Paddington | 142,193 | 743 | 295 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 140 | 1 | 54 | 1,200 | ||
| Kensington | 171,234 | 962 | 200 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 165 | 2 | 31 | 1,346 | ||
| Hammersmith | 123,853 | 977 | 179 | 14 | 7 | 102 | 2 | 32 | 1,279 | |||
| Fulham | 157,303 | 1,043 | 271 | 40 | 1 | 33 | 152 | 1 | 39 | 1,540 | ||
| Chelsea | 64,511 | 272 | 74 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 8 | 34 | 1 | 3 | 413 | |
| City of Westminster | 154,544 | 1 | 844 | 186 | 49 | 2 | 10 | 111 | 1 | 19 | 1,203 | |
| St. Marylebone | 114,355 | 434 | 235 | 37 | 9 | 67 | 1 | 25 | 782 | |||
| Hampstead | 86,388 | 281 | 231 | 17 | 7 | 45 | 15 | 581 | ||||
| St Pancras | 214,133 | 1,207 | 451 | 44 | 1 | 18 | 224 | 3 | 37 | 1,945 | ||
| Stoke Newington | 50,511 | 264 | 98 | 4 | 3 | 49 | 11 | 418 | ||||
| Hackney | 223,393 | 806 | 495 | 28 | 3 | 17 | 296 | 3 | 51 | 1,645 | ||
| Holborn | 46,832 | 171 | 64 | 15 | 4 | 22 | 6 | 276 | ||||
| Finsbury | 84,521 | 449 | 145 | 19 | 11 | 157 | 3 | 17 | 781 | |||
| City of London | 17,831 | 1 | 85 | 31 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 132 | ||||
| Shoreditch | 109,569 | 424 | 221 | 19 | 1 | 13 | 198 | 3 | 20 | 876 | ||
| Bethnal Green | 127,807 | 654 | 376 | 18 | 9 | 305 | 2 | 38 | 1,362 | |||
| Stepney | 275,081 | 2.089 | 885 | 47 | 33 | 403 | 4 | 76 | 3,457 | |||
| Poplar | 160,839 | 663 | 353 | 34 | 23 | 222 | 9 | 81 | 1,295 | |||
| Southwark | 188,321 | 1,447 | 340 | 24 | 29 | 325 | 6 | 77 | 2,165 | |||
| Bermondsey | 124,683 | 581 | 216 | 8 | 5 | 123 | 5 | 22 | 933 | |||
| Lambeth | 297,094 | 1,754 | 560 | 50 | 3 | 23 | 237 | 5 | 73 | 2,627 | ||
| Battersea | 167,451 | 996 | 267 | 21 | 13 | 156 | 1 | 48 | 1 453 | |||
| Wandsworth | 331,321 | 1,410 | 537 | 47 | 31 | 238 | 3 | 53 | 2,263 | |||
| Camberwell | 261,828 | 1,541 | 458 | 29 | 1 | 24 | 270 | 44 | 2,323 | |||
| Deptford | 109,269 | 863 | 252 | 9 | 5 | 229 | 12 | 1,358 | ||||
| Greenwich | 96,018 | 552 | 243 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 123 | 4 | 9 | 932 | ||
| Lewisham | 169,211 | 955 | 406 | 51 | 129 | 15 | 1,543 | |||||
| Woolwich | 122,431 | 693 | 387 | 15 | 7 | 101 | 1,203 | |||||
| Port of London | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 12 | ||||||
* Including Membranous Croup.