Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1898
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in the London sanitary areas severally during each of the past ten
years:—
DEATHS from DIPHTHERIA, per 1,000 living, in each of the METROPOLITAN SANITARY AREAS during the Ten Years 1888-97, after distribution of Deaths in Public Institutions.
| Sanitary Areas. | Year. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888. | 1889. | 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | |
| REGISTRATION LONDON. | 0·31 | 0·38 | 0·33 | 0·32 | 0·44 | 0·75 | 0·61 | 0·52 | 0·59 | 0·50 |
| West. | ||||||||||
| Paddington | 0·66 | 0·36 | 0·34 | 0·20 | 0·23 | 0·58 | 0·76 | 0·38 | 0·51 | 0·51 |
| Kensington | 0·55 | 0·67 | 0·20 | 0·17 | 0·20 | 0·49 | 0·46 | 0·53 | 0·40 | 0·47 |
| Hammersmith | 0·42 | 0·49 | 0·51 | 0·75 | 0·74 | 0·53 | 0·49 | 0·43 | 0·49 | 0·28 |
| Fulham | 0·13 | 0·15 | 0·25 | 0·21 | 0·32 | 0·63 | 0·99 | 0·70 | 0·66 | 0·63 |
| Chelsea | 0·15 | 0·25 | 0·58 | 0·17 | 0·41 | 0·54 | 0·54 | 0·50 | 1·17 | 0·56 |
| S. George, Hanover Square | 0·56 | 0·37 | 0·16 | 0·26 | 0·33 | 0·43 | 0·24 | 0·30 | 0·30 | 0·21 |
| St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster | 0·65 | 0·50 | 0·16 | 0·20 | 0·80 | 0·26 | 0·48 | 0·39 | 0·37 | 0·43 |
| St. James, Westminster | 0·19 | 0·08 | 0·12 | 0·28 | 0·25 | 0·58 | 0·63 | 0·17 | 0·09 | 0·13 |
| North. | ||||||||||
| St Marylebone | 0·16 | 0·23 | 0·19 | 0·18 | 0·34 | 0·66 | 0·51 | 0·25 | 0·52 | 0·33 |
| Hampstead | 0·26 | 0·13 | 0·31 | 0·19 | 0·39 | 0·53 | 0·27 | 0·19 | 0·39 | 0·22 |
| St. Pancras | 0·31 | 0·26 | 0·55 | 0·30 | 0·46 | 0·85 | 0·50 | 0·55 | 0·40 | 0·47 |
| Islington | 0·16 | 0·20 | 0·25 | 0·50 | 0·47 | 0·61 | 0·67 | 0·44 | 0·74 | 0·38 |
| Stoke Newington | 0·87 | 0·15 | 0·15 | 0·56 | 0·56 | |||||
| Hackney | 0·35 | 0·44 | 0·29 | 0·34 | 0·56 | 0·59 | 0·39 | 0·47 | 0·62 | |
| Central. | ||||||||||
| St. Giles | 0·27 | 0·42 | 0·24 | 0·30 | 0·53 | 9·56 | 0·36 | 0·34 | 0·18 | 0·19 |
| St Martin-in-the Fields | 0·19 | 0·13 | 0·07 | 0·28 | 0·84 | 0·58 | 0·44 | 0·53 | 0·23 | 0·24 |
| Strand | 0·11 | 0·30 | 0·15 | 0·20 | 0·32 | 0·90 | 0·37 | 0·54 | 0·12 | 0·21 |
| Holborn | 0·14 | 0·49 | 0·52 | 0·27 | 0·52 | 0·68 | 0·63 | 0·22 | 0·38 | 0·53 |
| Clerkenwell | 0·39 | 0·36 | 0·28 | 0·42 | 0·42 | 1·15 | 0·51 | 0·51 | 0·62 | 0·73 |
| St.Luke | 0·23 | 0·30 | 0·37 | 0·28 | 0·33 | 1·10 | 0·36 | 0·48 | 0·62 | 0·51 |
| City of London | 0·27 | 0·30 | 0·28 | 0·34 | 0·66 | 0·31 | 0·18 | 0·24 | 0·34 | 0·33 |
| East | ||||||||||
| Shoreditch | 0·26 | 0·56 | 0·46 | 0·53 | 0·36 | 1·11 | 0·61 | 0·47 | 0·60 | 0·64 |
| Bethnal Green | 0·41 | 0·79 | 0·88 | 0·47 | 0·91 | 1·06 | 1·03 | 0·78 | 0·57 | 0·65 |
| Whitechapel | 0·33 | 0·46 | 0·68 | 0·73 | 0·78 | 0·80 | 0·60 | 0·75 | 0·60 | 0·43 |
| St George-in-the-East | 0·33 | 0·94 | 0·65 | 0·42 | 0·72 | 1·34 | 1·09 | 1·06 | 0·62 | 0·59 |
| Limehouse | 0·43 | 0·82 | 0·48 | 0 28 | 0·44 | 1·06 | 0·88 | 0·78 | 0·83 | 0·50 |
| MIle End Old Town | 0·19 | 0·50 | 0·40 | 0·34 | 0·75 | 0·73 | 0·74 | 1·01 | 0·86 | 0·56 |
| Poplar | 0·26 | 0·39 | 0·42 | 0·33 | 0·47 | 1·00 | 0·64 | 0·90 | 0·61 | 0·71 |
| South. | ||||||||||
| St. Saviour | 0·47 | 0·44 | 0·18 | 0·41 | 0·22 | 0·65 | 0·77 | 0·51 | 0·70 | 0·48 |
| St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark | 0·39 | 0·34 | 0·23 | 0·30 | 0·44 | 0·75 | 0·82 | 0·28 | 0·65 | 0·46 |
| Newington | 0·16 | 0·48 | 0·27 | 0·38 | 0·33 | 0·79 | 0·51 | 0·43 | 0·58 | 0·53 |
| St. Olave | 0·32 | 0·08 | 0·31 | 0·40 | 0·24 | 0·57 | 0·25 | 0·34 | 0·76 | 0·17 |
| Bermondsey | 0·16 | 0·27 | 0·22 | 0·19 | 0·24 | 0·94 | 0·78 | 0·34 | 0·84 | 0·73 |
| Rotherhithe | 0·21 | 0·42 | 0·20 | 0·10 | 0·28 | 0·78 | 0·78 | 0·77 | 0·63 | 0·52 |
| Lambeth | 0·40 | 0·58 | 0·27 | 0·28 | 0·47 | 0·65 | 0·49 | 0·38 | 0·46 | 0·48 |
| Battersea ................ | 0·20 | 0·23 | 0·27 | 0·46 | 0·35 | 1·07 | 0·73 | 0·57 | 0·49 | 0·63 |
| Wandsworth | 0·46 | 0·30 | 0.14 | 0·23 | 0·40 | 0·07 | 0·45 | 0·25 | 0·21 | 0·57 |
| Camberwell | 0·20 | 0·31 | 0·22 | 0·20 | 0·33 | 0·54 | 0·78 | 0·72 | 1·01 | 0·69 |
| 0·22 | 0·19 | 0·28 | 0·28 | 0·31 | 0·87 | 0·77 | 1·06 | 0·78 | 0·39 | |
| Lee* | 0·14 | 0·14 | 0·14 | 0·08 | 0·16 | 0·54 | 0·56 | 0·29 | 0·43 | 0·43 |
| Lewisham((exclud. Penge) | 0·47 | 0·07 | 0·21 | 0·11 | 0·27 | 0·69 | 0·38 | 0·17 | 0·88 | 0·42 |
| Woolwich | 0·08 | 0·15 | 0·12 | 0·06 | 0·10 | 0·20 | 0·34 | 0·34 | 0·74 | 0·80 |
| Plumstead* | 0·41 | 0·27 | 0·27 | 0·11 | 0·70 | 1·18 | 0·64 | 0·62 | 0·91 | 0·39 |
* The rates for Lee and Plumstead for all the years relate to those sanitary areas as constituted
on March 9th, 1894.