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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

Mile End 1893

Annual report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the District for the year 1893

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Table: Cases of Infectious Disease notified to the several Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health, wider the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, in the Fifty-two Weeks ended Saturday, 30th December, 1893.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified to the several Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health, wider the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, in the Fifty-two Weeks ended Saturday, 30th December, 1893.

Name of District.Small-pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.Typhus Fever.Other Continued FeversPuerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Croup.Cholera.Totals.Estimated Population in the middle of 1893.
Paddington728232917115182479...1537120,277
Kensington969573681021892851521843167,038
Hammersmith1868727868...418195611275103,674
Fulham317212406116181671951269103,075
Chelsea4660323680...1522081120098,114
St.George, HanoverSq.2463012272...23877294975,825
Westminster494288545......5912270754,761
St. James, Westminster561264922...3335......29423,873
St. Marylebone1869483939923114031922066139,546
Hampstead1454016436...35805...84773,949
St. Pancras1272679790184...3167062254542243,025
Islington130308390427018417173215187328,608
Hackney672568932369...7185224354531240,177
St. Giles, Bloomsbury772528133......31076...55938,511
St.Martin-in-the-Fields11102246.........92...15413,911
Strand331407813.........232...28923,508
Holborn35329105411...21033...61932,646
Clerkenwell1677430771...81240303145065,163
St. Luke, Middlesex1737916032...1218013...78441,406
City of London27331702811...793254235,383
Shoreditch33106251112114103343352114123.425
Bethnal Green891519723140...4184354442976129,625
Whitechapel103863215651...92327...149575,163
St. George-in-the-East5251925047...1812461100845,182
Limchouse8472123711531618911...136757,386
Mile End Old Town11611993561520...62809...2118108,006
Poplar226191111113961371058846...4326168,876
St. Saviour, Southwark202198721......1564...40826,823
St. George-the-Martyr8660518343223157121109459,952
Newington76113447268...162952722081117,430
St. Olave, Southwark12124356......3341...21512,861
Bermondsey565772095011519224...111584,244
Rotherhithe9230610228...35836...62539,764
Lambeth10622768031603632759157304116280,567
Battersea124150465013139204543712933160,633
Wandsworth341290410115...6194063422316169,379
Camberwell1421883500142...5244402483168246,837
Greenwich1901503479118...52236823...2708173,349
Lewisham2657120245......91896...104876,593
Woolwich632582629...24491243441,794
Plumstead6076921743...31013221...125594,192
Port of London112...20.........2......35
Totals29333791513455375823210413101266798769599