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, 1896
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the middle of February and the end of March. The deaths
in London from diseases of the Respiratory Organs in 1895 were
790 below the average; this average, however, includes the
excessive mortality from such diseases in 1890-93. The following
table shows the registered deaths from Influenza for each of the
last six years in the several sanitary areas of London:—
DEATHS from INFLUENZA registered in the METROPOLITAN SANITARY AREAS in the Six Years 1890 to 1895.
Sanitary Area. | 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | 1895. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Paddington | 45 | 67 | 79 | 64 | 30 | 106 |
Kensington | 38 | 112 | 158 | 94 | 33 | 103 |
Hammersmith | 11 | 34 | 57 | 28 | 11 | 48 |
Fulham | 12 | 57 | 43 | 43 | 14 | 60 |
Chelsea | 18 | 62 | 73 | 31 | 29 | 57 |
St. George, Hanover Square | 33 | 48 | 79 | 25 | 18 | 60 |
St. Margaret & St. John, Westminster | 8 | 21 | 19 | 20 | 11 | 20 |
St. James, Westminster | 8 | 28 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
St. Marylebone | 33 | 74 | 75 | 68 | 31 | 89 |
Hampstead | 8 | 46 | 31 | 53 | 21 | 50 |
St. Pancras | 36 | 153 | 137 | 58 | 42 | 98 |
Islington | 42 | 189 | 181 | 128 | 51 | 156 |
Stoke Newington | 8 | 19 | 27 | 7 | 7 | 22 |
Hackney | 22 | 113 | 84 | 66 | 37 | 112 |
St.Giles | 6 | 28 | 24 | 16 | 23 | 32 |
St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 3 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
Strand | 4 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
Holborn | 2 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 18 |
Clerkenwell | 11 | 30 | 33 | 34 | 15 | 22 |
St. Luke | 7 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 5 |
City of London | 15 | 21 | 27 | 17 | 4 | 17 |
Shoreditch | 13 | 58 | 33 | 31 | 14 | 59 |
Bethnal Green | 22 | 102 | 56 | 41 | 13 | 29 |
Whitechapel | 4 | 49 | 52 | 33 | 13 | 16 |
St. George-in-the-East | 6 | 19 | 20 | 17 | 11 | 14 |
Limehouse | 3 | 17 | 22 | 18 | 3 | 10 |
Mile End Old Town | 9 | 53 | 41 | 38 | 17 | 44 |
Poplar | 9 | 77 | 42 | 35 | 16 | 35 |
St. Saviour | 4 | 7 | 13 | 3 | — | 8 |
St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark | 5 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 24 |
Newington | 9 | 63 | 33 | 30 | 12 | 45 |
St. Olave | 1 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
Bermondsey | 2 | 39 | 40 | 17 | 9 | 28 |
Rotherhithe | 1 | 24 | 29 | 9 | 6 | 10 |
Lambeth | 50 | 135 | 140 | 85 | 47 | 143 |
Battersea | 26 | 54 | 91 | 44 | 32 | 88 |
Wandsworth | 34 | 70 | 91 | 57 | 37 | 121 |
Camberwell | 34 | 133 | 124 | 82 | 40 | 137 |
Greenwich (including Deptford) | 13 | 105 | 61 | 64 | 27 | 107 |
Lee | 6 | 27 | 34 | 12 | 9 | 49 |
Lewisham (excluding Penge) | 12 | 43 | 46 | 49 | 22 | 43 |
Woolwich | 2 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 12 |
Plumstead | 9 | 48 | 31 | 35 | 8 | 16 |