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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 1897
Forty-second annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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Table LXXXY. Showing the Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year of 1897 in Islington and in its Encircling Districts.
| The Encircling Districts. | Estimated Populations, 1898. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever orScarlatina. | Diphtheria | Membranous Croup. | Enteric (Typhoid) Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Cholera. | Total Cases. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Pancras | 242,255 | 3 | 942 | 533 | 10 | 223 | .. | 388 | 14 | 8 | .. | 3 | 2,124 |
| Stoke Newington | 34,136 | 2 | 108 | 53 | 1 | 37 | .. | 28 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 232 |
| Hackney | 216,698 | 3 | 1,374 | 751 | 29 | 209 | .. | 268 | 11 | 5 | .. | .. | 2,650 |
| Hornsey | 65,282 | •• | 267 | 88 | 3 | 28 | .. | 42 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 430 |
| Clerkenwell | 66,162 | .. | 366 | 346 | 4 | 60 | .. | 99 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 877 |
| St. Luke | 41,279 | .. | 238 | 185 | 1 | 41 | .. | 85 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 552 |
| Shoreditch | 121,883 | 1 | 627 | 353 | 19 | 107 | .. | 226 | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 | 1,338 |
| The Encircling Districts | 787,695 | 9 | 3,922 | 2,309 | 67 | 705 | .. | 1,136 | 36 | 15 | •• | 4 | 8,203 |
| Islington | 341,319 | 3 | 1,577 | 700 | 29 | 256 | .. | 312 | 27 | 1 | .. | 1 | 2,906 |
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