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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
Islington 1896
Forty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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1896]
Table LXXXVI.
| Districts in which the Patients were resident. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Typhoid or Enteric Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Continued Fever. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Totals. | Population 1896. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battersea | 8 | 1175 | 391 | 28 | 109 | .. | 1 | .. | 253 | 10 | 1975 | 165,115 |
| Bermondsey | 4 | 394 | 250 | 8 | 65 | .. | .. | .. | 131 | 5 | 857 | 85,475 |
| Bethnal Green | 2 | 1257 | 425 | 35 | 129 | .. | 4 | .. | 327 | 12 | 2191 | 129,162 |
| Camberwell | 13 | 1222 | 1407 | 23 | 175 | 3 | .. | 1 | 319 | 16 | 3179 | 253,076 |
| Chelsea | 2 | 571 | 481 | 7 | 66 | .. | 2 | .. | 120 | 6 | 1255 | 96,646 |
| Clerkenwell | 5 | 461 | 234 | 12 | 67 | .. | .. | .. | 108 | 4 | 891 | 66,202 |
| Fulham | 2 | 628 | 342 | 14 | 54 | .. | 5 | 2 | 99 | 9 | 1155 | 113,781 |
| Greenwich | 14 | 1163 | 819 | 17 | 113 | .. | 3 | .. | 242 | 17 | 2388 | 75,774 |
| Hackney | 8 | 1533 | 570 | 23 | 202 | .. | 7 | .. | 311 | 6 | 2660 | 213,044 |
| Hammersmith | 3 | 532 | 209 | 9 | 51 | 1 | 4 | .. | 121 | 9 | 939 | 104,199 |
| Hampstead | .. | 289 | 194 | 5 | 58 | .. | 2 | .. | 54 | 6 | 608 | 75,449 |
| Holborn | 1 | 123 | 69 | 3 | 30 | 1 | 1 | .. | 65 | 2 | 295 | 31,208 |
| 50 | 2051 | 1067 | 24 | 229 | .. | 6 | .. | 385 | 30 | 3842 | 336,764 | |
| Kensington | 13 | 1020 | 361 | 11 | 95 | .. | 6 | .. | 277 | 9 | 1781 | 170,465 |
| Lambeth | 18 | 1595 | 662 | 30 | 165 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 355 | 20 | 2866 | 295,033 |
| Lee | 1 | 168 | 75 | .. | 28 | .. | .. | .. | 37 | 6 | 315 | 38,588 |
| Lewisham | 1 | 343 | 361 | 4 | 58 | .. | .. | .. | 79 | 9 | 855 | 83,213 |
| Limehouse | 7 | 350 | 264 | 6 | 27 | .. | 1 | .. | 110 | 4 | 769 | 58,305 |
| Marylebone | 4 | 811 | 285 | 7 | 107 | .. | .. | .. | 248 | 3 | 1465 | 141,188 |
| Mile End Old Town | 2 | 764 | 541 | 10 | 113 | .. | 2 | .. | 197 | 5 | 1634 | 111,060 |
| Paddington | 4 | 795 | 239 | 8 | 61 | .. | 1 | .. | 119 | 10 | 1237 | 124,506 |
| Plumstead | 4 | 363 | 199 | 9 | 29 | .. | 3 | 1 | 43 | 3 | 654 | 59,252 |
| Poplar | 9 | 964 | 670 | 31 | 184 | .. | 8 | 1 | 315 | 7 | 2189 | 169,267 |
| Rotherbithe | 5 | 198 | 117 | 6 | 45 | .. | 1 | 1 | 113 | 6 | 492 | 40,379 |
| Shoreditch | 1 | 708 | 350 | 21 | 117 | .. | 9 | .. | 297 | 3 | 1506 | 122,348 |
| St. George-in-the-East | 2 | 378 | 208 | 6 | 33 | .. | 1 | .. | 89 | 2 | 719 | 47,506 |
| St. George, Hanover Sq. | 1 | 342 | 123 | 1 | 54 | .. | 1 | .. | 56 | 2 | 580 | 79,967 |
| St. George, Southwark | 3 | 335 | 181 | 12 | 48 | .. | .. | .. | 95 | 3 | 677 | 60,278 |
| St. Giles | .. | 180 | 56 | 4 | 21 | .. | .. | .. | 80 | 1 | 342 | 38,237 |
| St. James, Westminster | 3 | 75 | 34 | 3 | 6 | .. | .. | .. | 20 | 2 | 143 | 23,050 |
| St. Luke, Middlesex | 2 | 264 | 129 | 4 | 38 | .. | 2 | .. | 133 | 2 | 574 | 41,527 |
| St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster | 2 | 224 | 107 | 2 | 35 | .. | 2 | .. | 79 | 1 | 452 | 53,234 |
| St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 1 | 73 | 15 | 1 | 18 | .. | 2 | .. | 12 | 1 | 123 | 13,077 |
| St. Mary, Newington | 3 | 677 | 386 | 21 | 88 | .. | 1 | .. | 194 | 9 | 1379 | 120,939 |
| St. Olave, Southwark | .. | 62 | 43 | 1 | 9 | .. | .. | .. | 21 | .. | 136 | 11,731 |
| St. Pancras | 6 | 1079 | 469 | 13 | 200 | .. | 1 | .. | 355 | 21 | 2144 | 240,764 |
| St. Saviour, Southwark | 4 | 140 | 82 | 1 | 9 | .. | .. | .. | 35 | .. | 271 | 25,365 |
| Stoke Newington | 2 | 226 | 76 | 4 | 16 | .. | .. | .. | 40 | 1 | 365 | 33,485 |
| Strand | .. | 132 | 36 | 1 | 8 | .. | .. | .. | 11 | 1 | 189 | 23,782 |
| Wandsworth | 2 | 1000 | 296 | 3 | 102 | .. | 8 | 1 | 265 | 11 | 1688 | 187,264 |
| Whitechapel | 4 | 638 | 337 | 14 | 62 | .. | .. | .. | 138 | 2 | 1195 | 77,717 |
| Woolwich | 1 | 146 | 100 | 2 | 21 | .. | 3 | .. | 45 | 1 | 319 | 41,314 |
| City of London | 2 | 197 | 71 | 1 | 21 | .. | 1 | .. | 34 | .. | 327 | 30,970 |
| Port of London | 5 | 5 | 6 | .. | 17 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 35 | .. |
| Grand Totals | 225 | 25,638 | 13361 | 446 | 3189 | 6 | 102 | 13 | 6438 | 278 | 49696 | |
| * Three cases ofRelapsing Fever were also notified. | ||||||||||||