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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

St Pancras 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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Table: In the following table is shown the number of cases of infectious diseases notified luring 1913 in the several Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs, and in the County of London: —

In the following table is shown the number of cases of infectious diseases notified luring 1913 in the several Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs, and in the County of London: —

Boroughs.Estimated Population in the middle of 1913.Total Cases.Enteric Fever.Typhus.Continued Fever.Small-pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup).Cholera.Erysipelas.Cerebro-Spinal Fever.Puerperal Fever.Anthrax.Glanders. .Ophthalmia Neonatorum.Poliomyelitis.
West. Paddington142,21096025.........487304...112...8......22 172 4
Kensington171,28488028.........558145...112313......231
Hammersmith123,74582113........537138...101...192...202
Fulham157,1171,23834.........767270...121581...33
Chelsea64,5983237.........20661...35.........
City of Westminster154,81070129.........379192...75...6......164
North....7834......91
St. Marylebone114,53266219......1417130...33...1......114
Hampstead86,34640015.........208128...215511......249
St. Pancras214,3301,30941...1...565438...228828......4019
Islington325,5842,23950.........1,315551...3512......15
Stoke Newington50,5182469.........10984...184819......3115
Hackney223,3531,41939...1...821331...29.......32
Central. Holborn46,9492347.........60...125...1......63
Finsbury..84,6795 4915...1...132107...8514......13
City of London ...17,916946........27439...153...9......228
East. Shoreditch109.65475715...147185...265413......195
Bethnal Green .127,82495823...354223...3641342...2414
Stepney275,3001,810682l411471...17310261...473
Poplar160,9131,39710...12754315...5.........
South. Southwark188,4871,58639121880327...260 13015 14......55 243
Bermondsey124,7391,17127i1 9731243...219625......658
Lambeth.297,1392 17039...91,397408...123310......315
Battersea167,4611,43120...2949288...206932......3714
Wandsworth330,3951,80052......1,007447...2576121...305
Camberwell261,8051,89323...11,155403...2321......19
Deptford109,2801,14017...625267...1125......17
Greenwich96,0157398...330451...84......115
Lewisham168,8221,23834...670402...723......131
Woolwich122,3821,15514.........645...8......
Port of London?52...2......1......
Administrative County of London4,518,19131,367 (758415417,5527,654...41489234941641145