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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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Table C1.
| Citizen and Boroughs. | Estimated populations in the middle of 1903. | Kminnti G*st,s or Unenov* Pimw, | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small pox. | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria.* | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever | Other continued Fever | Puerperal Fever | Erysipelas. | Cholera. | Total. | ||
| london | 4,013,812 | 416 | 12,531 | 7,73S | 22 | 2,339 | 40 | 233 | 1,372 | .. | 27,691 |
| Paddington | 146,032 | 5 | 417 | 150 | 1 | 44 | 3 | 4 | 119 | .. | 743 |
| Kensington | 178,409 | 5 | 335 | 180 | .. | 66 | 2 | 4 | 177 | .. | 769 |
| Hammersmith | 115, 803 | 7 | 316 | 106 | .. | 59 | 1 | 6 | 109 | .. | 664 |
| Fulham | 147,780 | 11 | 446 | 294 | .. | 80 | .. | 19 | 116 | .. | 926 |
| Chelsea | 74,169 | 7 | 200 | 98 | .. | 13 | .. | 55 | .. | 388 | |
| City of Westminster | 179,052 | 45 | 352 | 186 | .. | 71 | 2 | 111 | 111 | .. | 772 |
| St. Marylebone | 131,234 | 4 | 414 | 228 | .. | 67 | 4 | 7 | 177 | .. | 901 |
| Hampstead | 85,197 | 1 | 174 | 86 | .. | 29 | .. | 1 | 41 | .. | 332 |
| St Pancras | 235,7116 | 31 | 658 | 522 | .. | 88 | .. | 5 | 224 | .. | 1,528 |
| Stoke Newington | 52,069 | 2 | 87 | 40 | .. | 35 | 1 | 3 | 30 | .. | 197 |
| Hackney | 224,082 | 4 | 667 | 545 | .. | 271 | 5 | 21 | 281 | .. | 1,794 |
| Holborn | 57,845 | 2 | 144 | 52 | .. | 54 | 2 | 4 | 90 | .. | 348 |
| Finsbury | 99,717 | 2 | 293 | 129 | .. | 52 | .. | 8 | 106 | .. | 590 |
| City of London | 24,539 | .. | 73 | 27 | .. | 14 | .. | 1 | 10 | .. | 125 |
| Shoreditch | 117 513 | .. | 259 | 154 | .. | 99 | 1 | 7 | 147 | .. | 667 |
| Bethnal Green | 130,028 | 3 | 392 | 242 | 2 | 59 | 1 | 6 | 214 | .. | 919 |
| Stepney | 302,153 | 26 | 878 | 543 | 1 | 199 | .. | 10 | 376 | .. | 2,033 |
| Poplar | 169,550 | 28 | 450 | 425 | .. | 93 | .. | 8 | 144 | .. | 1,148 |
| Southwark | 207,369 | 40 | 512 | 354 | .. | 122 | .. | 13 | 239 | .. | 1,280 |
| Bermondsey | 129,801 | 7 | 401 | 174 | 16 | 76 | .. | 9 | 182 | .. | 865 |
| Lambeth | 307,711 | 73 | 745 | 346 | .. | 136 | 7 | 18 | 231 | .. | 1 |
| Battersea | 173,422 | 37 | 474 | 314 | .. | 89 | .. | 8 | 149 | .. | 1,071 |
| Wandsworth | 249.678 | 29 | 821 | 532 | .. | 101 | 3 | 13 | 235 | .. | 1.734 |
| Camberwell | 265,562 | 19 | 666 | 365 | .. | 103 | 2 | 6 | 233 | .. | 1,394 |
| Deptford | 112,537 | 2 | 502 | 456 | 2 | 31 | 1 | 6 | 134 | .. | 1,134 |
| Greenwich | 99,824 | 4 | 164 | 208 | .. | 44 | .. | 7 | 73 | .. | 500 |
| Lewisham | 136,405 | 1 | 463 | 278 | .. | 49 | .. | 8 | 82 | .. | 88l |
| Woolwich | 121,478 | 6 | 390 | 184 | •• | 42 | 3 | 2 | 58 | .. | 685 |
| Port of London | .. | 3 | 2 | 2 | .. | 22 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 30 |
*Including Membranous Croup.