London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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

Kensington 1893

The annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year 1893

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East District.Shoreditch998228941191141094864121684025303522112616124,009705,012
Bethnal Green112402556610414413845223491841393129140665129,134
Whitechapel465362107869116713347711792528341610369674,462
St. George-in-the-East..25124142314676572101563046251311437245,546
Stepney283951486105534690294331262420183112810057,599
Mile End Old Town1162217101568483732963115191619141160476107,565
Poplar254327541499611910495414515291665353630201217494059166,697
South District.St. Saviour149335714911122420421275110591135243654511651100195,1051,470,376
St. Olave22107161456711213513645048431963225248770113f,654
Lambeth1060193921481612252467801176630364939291531055275,202
Wandsworth & Clapham64853811521230830441112352010101858576662792641672284,192
Camberwell3146166991041301502286127497271418232883821235,312
Greenwich45968161657699131173479266102414193830101769165,417
Woolwich26451114967478115913582256157106831500106,961
Lewisham616325235180712551221610611835291690972,533
Port of London
4871242369281237926683513411343091460311915323322973466785084882831932090920909

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The figures in the above Table have been compiled from the Quarterly Returns of the Asylums Board. In addition to the cases in the Table, 7 cases of
typhus were admitted, 2 from Wandsworth and Clapham ; and one each from the City, Fulham, Mile End Old Town, St. Marylebone and Stepney.
At the close of the year there were remaining 3,354 cases ; viz., small-pox 84, scarlet fever 2,863, diphtheria 284, enteric fever 105, and "other
diseases" 18.