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, 1894
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Name of District. | Total Deaths from all causes. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and undefined Fever | Diarrhoea. | Deathsof Infants under one year of age. | Deaths under one year to 1,000 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 | 1966 | 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 | 18925 |
St. James, Westminster | 474 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 8 | ... | 6 | 1 | 7 | 77 | 1485 |
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 | 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 |
Shorediteh | 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 | 52.0 | 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 | l | 146 | 1061 | 158 |
*Greenwich | 3510 | 13 | 103 | 68 | 147 | 100 | ... | 28 | l | 143 | 887 | 164.75 |
Lewisham | 1133 | 5 | 19 | 11 | 53 | 8 | ... | 9 | l | 29 | 244 | 129.75 |
Woolwich | 842 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 20 | ... | 5 | l | 33 | 208 | 159.75 |
Plu instead | 1547 | 2 | 53 | 48 | 85 | 32 | ... | 11 | ... | 54 | 394 | 137.75 |
* This refers to the whole of the District, and includes the Parish of Greenwich as well as the Parishes
of Saint Paul and Saint Nicholas, Deptford.