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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

Greenwich 1896

Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1897

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Table: TABLE No. 9. Cases of Infectious Disease notified to the several Metropolitan Medical Officersof Health, under the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, in the Fifty-three weeks ended Saturday, 2nd January, 1897.

TABLE No. 9. Cases of Infectious Disease notified to the several Metropolitan Medical Officersof Health, under the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, in the Fifty-three weeks ended Saturday, 2nd January, 1897.

Local Authorities in whose Districts the cases were resident.Small-pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.Typhus Fever.Other Continued Fevers.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Croup.Cholera.Totals.Population 1896.
Kensington14101136094..6927711..1782170,465
Battersea81194416115..11226926..2041165,115
Bermondsey540326570....51348..89085,475
Bethnal Green21344466134..31434336..2342129,162
Camberwell13124114471793..173302413255253,076
Chelsea259553469..281267..134396,646
Clerkenwell1248225966....611812..95566,202
Fulbam264935858..591151421212113,781
Greenwich (including Deptford151193839118..32124817..2454175,774
Hackney101617595212..7633725..2809213,044
Hammersmith4557223531491359..995104,199
Hampstead..30821858..26555..65275,449
Holborn11438132113794..34531,208
Islington5921891152258..63242325..4144336,764
Lambeth211660713172115223763463020295,033
Lee11737728....637....32238,588
Lewisham235637465....9844..89483,213
Limehouse737328428..151196..82358,305
Mile End3809594123..2520910..1755111,060
Newington469440289..1920221..1422120,939
Paddington785325768..1111258..1330124,506
Plumstead436720029..34448166059,252
Poplar9996697197..983383012285169,267
Rotherhithe821212759....61215153940,379
Shoreditch1728370120..9330521..1557122,348
St. George-in-the-East242423935..121016..81047,506
St. George, Hanover Square138014659..1360ii..65079,967
St. George-the-Martyr334418753....4103..70560,278
St. Giles, Bloomsbury..1906125....11004..38138,237
St. James, Westminster382376....2243..15723,050
St. Luke. Middlesex227814141..221543..62341,527
St. Martin-in-the-Fields173151821121..12313,077
St. Marylebone4896313118....32667..1607141,188
St. Olave, Southwark..654610......211..14311,731
St. Pancras61183528216..2538314..2356240,764
St. Saviour, Southwark4145869....1361..28225,365
Stoke Newington22408317....1424..38933,485
Strand..132368....1111..18923,782
Wandsworth21032306107..912277411750187,264
Westminster223611840..2..854..48753,234
Whitechapel574039366....215615..137777,717
Woolwich114710121..31452..32141,314
City of London32367424..1..341..37330,970
Port of London55617......2....35..
Grand Totals26026975142243384610330668614521352584