Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the District for the year 1893
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Table shewing Deaths from all causes, and also from the principal Zymotic Diseases, in the various Metropolitan Districts as well as Mile End Old Town, during the year 1893.
Name of District. | Total Deaths from all causes. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined fever. | Diarrhœa. | Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age. | Deaths under 1 year to 1000 Births registered |
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Registration London | 90060 | 186 | 1658 | 1587 | 3196 | 2327 | 5 | 675 | 21 | 3432 | 21746 | 164 |
Paddington | 2141 | 4 | 30 | 33 | 70 | 60 | ... | 21 | ... | 57 | 451 | 150.5 |
Kensington | 2942 | 10 | 21 | 52 | 83 | 65 | ... | 17 | ... | 100 | 620 | 162.75 |
Hammersmith | 1872 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 53 | 50 | ... | 15 | ... | 83 | 474 | 160.75 |
Fulham | 2024 | 2 | 12 | 33 | 64 | 82 | ... | 17 | ... | 132 | 653 | 175.75 |
Chelsea | 1955 | 1 | 23 | 32 | 52 | 68 | ... | 17 | 2 | 73 | 482 | 158 |
St.George, Hanover Sq. | 1228 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 34 | 14 | ... | 12 | 2 | 26 | 199 | 134 |
Westminster | 1290 | ... | 5 | 25 | 14 | 15 | ... | 7 | 1 | 43 | 255 | 189 25 |
St. James, Westminster | 474 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 8 | ... | 6 | 1 | 7 | 77 | 148.5 |
Marylebone | 3192 | 5 | 32 | 68 | 94 | 78 | ... | 20 | 1 | 84 | 660 | 151.25 |
Hampstead | 948 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 38 | 6 | ... | 8 | 1 | 22 | 154 | 102.25 |
St. Pancras | 5138 | 9 | 104 | 100 | 201 | 106 | ... | 27 | ... | 164 | 1118 | 172.5 |
Islington | 6405 | 2 | 129 | 96 | 200 | 197 | 1 | 47 | 1 | 259 | 1603 | 165 |
Hackney | 4832 | 4 | 57 | 74 | 206 | 167 | ... | 53 | 1 | 164 | 1049 | 152.5 |
St. Giles, Bloomsbury | 925 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 22 | 18 | ... | 6 | ... | 23 | 143 | 134.5 |
St Martin-in-the-Fields | 298 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 2 | ... | 1 | ... | 5 | 42 | 187.25 |
Strand | 713 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 22 | 11 | ... | 1 | ... | 12 | 130 | 218.5 |
Holborn | 886 | 1 | 18 | 12 | 22 | 16 | ... | 13 | ... | 27 | 185 | 218.25 |
Clerkenwell | 1745 | ... | 79 | 30 | 76 | 51 | ... | 10 | ... | 73 | 425 | 200.25 |
St.Luke, Middlesex | 1282 | 1 | 58 | 28 | 46 | 40 | ... | 12 | ... | 47 | 308 | 174.25 |
City of London | 844 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 4 | ... | ... | 1 | 10 | 84 | 132.5 |
Shoreditch | 3153 | 3 | 129 | 39 | 137 | 80 | ... | 16 | 1 | 161 | 791 | 180.5 |
Bethnal Green | 3257 | 7 | 83 | 71 | 136 | 60 | ... | 25 | ... | 145 | 844 | 175.5 |
Whitechapel | 1916 | 5 | 37 | 32 | 61 | 26 | ... | 8 | ... | 66 | 520 | 171 |
St.George-in-the-East | 1403 | 1 | 30 | 14 | 62 | 23 | ... | 4 | ... | 85 | 410 | 209.75 |
Stepney | 1576 | 8 | 23 | 35 | 61 | 64 | 1 | 18 | ... | 61 | 401 | 208.5 |
Mile End Old Town | 2430 | 8 | 39 | 40 | 80 | 47 | ... | 29 | ... | 113 | 619 | 150.25 |
Poplar | 3905 | 12 | 32 | 105 | 168 | 74 | 1 | 62 | ... | 185 | 1003 | 171.75 |
St. Saviour, Southwark | 649 | ... | 6 | 18 | 17 | 20 | ... | 3 | ... | 18 | 120 | 153.5 |
St. George, Southwark | 1700 | 7 | 35 | 42 | 45 | 74 | ... | 13 | ... | 63 | 385 | 204.5 |
Newington | 2856 | 6 | 34 | 51 | 93 | 109 | ... | 13 | ... | 126 | 763 | 177.25 |
St. Olave, Southwark | 312 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | ... | 2 | ... | 9 | 58 | 144.25 |
Bermondsey | 2004 | 4 | 36 | 30 | 80 | 46 | 1 | 8 | ... | 70 | 537 | 168.5 |
Rotherhithe | 927 | 13 | 10 | 16 | 31 | 33 | ... | 8 | ... | 25 | 227 | 167 |
Lambeth | 5749 | 5 | 113 | 69 | 185 | 151 | 1 | 36 | 4 | 197 | 1371 | 161.5 |
Battersea | 2980 | 12 | 93 | 40 | 170 | 114 | ... | 22 | ... | 122 | 878 | 170 |
Wandsworth | 2617 | 1 | 36 | 53 | 113 | 81 | ... | 18 | 1 | 119 | 650 | 141.25 |
Camberwell | 4311 | 10 | 54 | 62 | 149 | 120 | ... | 23 | 1 | 146 | 1061 | 158 |
Greenwich | 3510 | 13 | 103 | 68 | 147 | 100 | ... | 28 | 1 | 143 | 887 | 164.75 |
Lewisham | 1133 | 5 | 19 | 11 | 53 | 8 | ... | 9 | 1 | 29 | 244 | 129.75 |
Woolwich | 842 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 20 | ... | 5 | 1 | 33 | 208 | 159.75 |
Plumstead | 1547 | 2 | 53 | 48 | 85 | 32 | ... | 11 | ... | 54 | 394 | 137.75 |