Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1898
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SANITARY AREA. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Other continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Croup. | Cholera. | TOTALS. | Estimated Population in 1898. | Cases per 1000 of the Population |
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Paddington | .. | 304 | 256 | 74 | .. | 2 | 5 | 131 | 4 | .. | 776 | 127480 | 6.1 |
Plumstead | .. | 423 | 111 | 28 | .. | 1 | 7 | 54 | .. | 3 | 627 | 62531 | 10.1 |
Poplar | 4 | 645 | 458 | 161 | .. | 3 | 5 | 226 | 11 | 2 | 1515 | 170220 | 8.9 |
Rotherhithe | .. | 45 | 41 | 21 | .. | .. | 3 | 82 | 1 | .. | 293 | 40849 | 6.0 |
Shoreditch | .. | 422 | 246 | 92 | .. | 1 | 7 | 173 | 11 | 1 | 953 | 121485 | 7.9 |
St. George-in-the-East | .. | 143 | 105 | 55 | .. | .. | 3 | 74 | 8 | .. | 388 | 45241 | 8.1 |
St. George, Hanover Square | 1 | 221 | 110 | 39 | .. | 1 | 2 | 43 | 1 | .. | 418 | 80608 | 5.2 |
St. George-the-Martyr | 1 | 310 | 237 | 40 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 68 | 9 | 3 | 677 | 60466 | 11.2 |
St. Giles, Bloomsbury | .. | 65 | 40 | 23 | .. | .. | 1 | 72 | 1 | .. | 202 | 37519 | 5.4 |
St. James, Westminster | .. | 31 | 41 | 6 | .. | .. | .. | 20 | 2 | .. | 100 | 22200 | 4.S |
St. Luke, Middlesex | .. | 197 | 186 | 15 | .. | .. | 2 | 58 | 6 | .. | 464 | 41076 | 11.3 |
St. Martin-in-the-Fields | .. | 11 | 8 | 12 | .. | .. | .. | 7 | .. | .. | 38 | 12424 | 3.2 |
St. Marylebone | 1 | 312 | 232 | 101 | .. | 2 | 10 | 181 | 3 | .. | 842 | 140483 | 6.0 |
St. Olave, Southwark | .. | 67 | 16 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 12 | .. | .. | 100 | 11288 | 8.9 |
St. Pancras | 2 | 980 | 485 | 220 | .. | 2 | 18 | 321 | 14 | 4 | 2046 | 243416 | 8.4 |
St. Saviour, Southwark | .. | 79 | 114 | 14 | .. | .. | .. | 33 | 1 | .. | 241 | 24562 | 9.9 |
Stoke Newington | .. | 149 | 53 | 18 | .. | .. | 3 | 28 | .. | .. | 252 | 34660 | 7.3 |
Strand | .. | 47 | 45 | 9 | .. | .. | 3 | 12 | 4 | .. | 117 | 28284 | 5.0 |
Wandsworth | 1 | 706 | 593 | 123 | .. | 1 | 21 | 238 | 9 | .. | 1692 | 202526 | 8.4 |
Westminster | 1 | 99 | 125 | 48 | .. | 1 | 2 | 50 | 2 | .. | 328 | 52574 | 6.3 |
Whitechapel | 2 | 252 | 174 | 41 | .. | .. | 5 | 148 | 13 | .. | 635 | 80559 | 7.9 |
Woolwich | .. | 204 | 109 | 22 | .. | .. | 3 | 37 | 13 | .. | 375 | 41478 | 9.1 |
City of London | 1 | 79 | 44 | 20 | .. | .. | .. | 19 | 2 | .. | 165 | 29088 | 5.7 |
Port of London | 2 | 2 | 4 | 19 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 28 | .. | .. |
County of London | 35 | 16917 | 11561 | 3032 | 17 | 55 | 250 | 5180 | 310 | 23 | 37380 | 4504766 | 8.5 |