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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 1903
Forty-eighth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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121 [1903
TABLE XCV.
(N.B.—Duplicate notifications have been deducted).
| WARDS. | Estimated Population. 1903. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Enteric (Typhoid) Fever | Typhus Fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Cholera. | Totals. | Cases Notified per 1,000 of Population. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| Tufnell | 32,838 | 3 | 76 | 43 | ... | 9 | ... | 23 | 3 | 1 | ... | ... | 158 | 4.81 |
| Upper Holloway | 34,822 | 1 | 78 | 45 | ... | 13 | ... | 28 | 4 | ... | ... | ... | 169 | 4.85 |
| Tollington | 34,765 | ... | 113 | 47 | ... | 14 | ... | 22 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 197 | 5.66 |
| Lower Holloway | 41.537 | 2 | 129 | 120 | 1 | 11 | ... | 25 | 4 | ... | ... | ... | 292 | 7.03 |
| Highbury | 34,858 | ... | 130 | 37 | ... | 13 | ... | 16 | 4 | ... | ... | ... | 200 | 5.74 |
| Mildmay | 24,862 | ... | 70 | 17 | ... | 13 | ... | 10 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 111 | 4.46 |
| Thornhill | 33,370 | ... | 88 | 34 | ... | 21 | ... | 25 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 169 | 5.06 |
| Barnsbury | 20,908 | ... | 42 | 17 | ... | 7 | ... | 10 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 77 | 3.68 |
| St. Mary's | 17,298 | ... | 28 | 21 | ... | 4 | ... | 12 | ... | ... | ... | 65 | 3.76 | |
| Canonbury | 31,160 | 1 | 36 | 36 | ... | 13 | ... | 31 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 118 | 3.78 |
| St. Peter's | 32,719 | 2 | 75 | 35 | 1 | 12 | ... | 25 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 151 | 4.61 |
| Totals | 339,137 | 9 | 865 | 452 | 3 | 130 | ... | 227 | 19 | 2 | ... | ... | 1707 | 5.03 |
| 1901 | 335,325 | 5o | 1286 | 902 | 9 | 281 | 2 ... | 285 | 34 | 3 | ... | ... | 2852 | 8.50 |
| 1902 | 337,268 | 276 | 1372 | 871 | 7 | 257 | 357 | 19 | 5 | .. | ... | 3164 | 9.20 |