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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
Lewisham 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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Table 24.
Attack Rates per 1,000 persons living at all ages from Small Pox, Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria in the Metropolitan Boroughs and the County of London for the years 1902 and 1903.
| Borough. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | *All Notifiable Infectious Diseases. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902. | 1903. | 1902. | 1903. | 1902. | 1903. | 1902. | 1903. | |
| Paddington | 0.77 | 0.03 | 2.50 | 2.85 | 1.52 | 1.02 | 6.51 | 5.09 |
| Kensington | 0.55 | 0.02 | 2.12 | 1.87 | 1.04 | 1.00 | 5.37 | 4.31 |
| Hammersmith | 0.87 | 0.06 | 3.08 | 2.72 | 1.58 | 1.43 | 7.11 | 5.73 |
| Fulham | 0.65 | 0.07 | 3.86 | 2.74 | 2.99 | 1.98 | 8.95 | 6.27 |
| Chelsea | 0.52 | 0.09 | 2.75 | 2.81 | 1.79 | 1.32 | 6.46 | 5.23 |
| City of Westminster | 1.28 | 0.26 | 2.62 | 1.96 | 1.57 | 1.03 | 7.05 | 4.31 |
| St. Marylebone | 1.16 | 0.03 | 3.13 | 3.15 | 1.79 | 1.73 | 8.59 | 6.87 |
| Hampstead | 0.23 | 0.01 | 3.04 | 2.04 | 1.17 | 1.00 | 5.77 | 3.90 |
| St. Pancras | 1.52 | 0.13 | 5.17 | 2.79 | 3.54 | 2.21 | 12.25 | 6.48 |
| Islington | 0.89 | 0.03 | 4.09 | 2.55 | 2.61 | 2.21 | 9.53 | 5.06 |
| Stoke Newington | 0.98 | 0.03 | 3.97 | 1.67 | 1.91 | 0.76 | 8.26 | 3.78 |
| Hackney | 1.91 | 0.01 | 3.97 | 2.97 | 3.24 | 2.43 | 11.55 | 8.01 |
| Holborn | 3.74 | 0.03 | 3.46 | 2.48 | 1.99 | 0.89 | 11.48 | 6.02 |
| Finsbury | 2.09 | 0.02 | 3.89 | 2.93 | 2.38 | 1.29 | 10.88 | 5.92 |
| City of London | 1.52 | — | 3.24 | 2.97 | 3.78 | 1.10 | 10.43 | 5.09 |
| Shoreditch | 3.74 | — | 2.12 | 2.20 | 1.96 | 1.31 | 10.70 | 5.68 |
| Bethnal Green | 3.96 | 0.02 | 4.07 | 3.01 | 2.49 | 1.86 | 13.58 | 7.07 |
| Stepney | 4.58 | 0.08 | 3.56 | 2.90 | 2.59 | 1.79 | 13.32 | 6.73 |
| Poplar | 3.72 | 0.16 | 3.95 | 2.65 | 2.77 | 2.50 | 12.88 | 6.77 |
| Southwark | 2.50 | 0.19 | 5.30 | 2.46 | 2.60 | 1.70 | 13.19 | 6.17 |
| Bermondsey | 1.72 | 0.05 | 3.88 | 3.08 | 2.17 | 1.34 | 10.30 | 6.66 |
| Lambeth | 1.18 | 0.23 | 4.44 | 2.42 | 1.60 | 1.12 | 9.14 | 5.06 |
| Battersea | 1.10 | 0.21 | 5.21 | 2.73 | 1.71 | 1.81 | 9.84 | 6.18 |
| Wandsworth | 0.54 | 0.11 | 4.46 | 3.28 | 3.13 | 2.13 | 9.84 | 6.94 |
| Lamberwell | 1.35 | 0.07 | 5.29 | 2.50 | 2.63 | 1.37 | 11.07 | 5.25 |
| Deptford | 1.29 | 0.01 | 5.81 | 4.46 | 2.40 | 4.05 | 11.60 | 10.08 |
| Greenwich | 1.04 | 0.04 | 4.72 | 1.64 | 1.16 | 2.08 | 9.63 | 5.01 |
| Lewisham | 0.63 | 0.00 | 4.88 | 3.28 | 2.84 | 1.83 | 9.68 | 6.09 |
| Woolwich | 1.96 | 0.04 | 2.32 | 3.21 | 2.10 | 1.51 | 7.80 | 5.64 |
| County of London | 1.67 | 0.09 | 3.98 | 2.71 | 2.32 | 1.67 | 10.06 | 6.00 |
♦Note.—Chicken Pox, which was notifiable during part of 1902, has been omitted.