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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: Table CII.Showing theAttack RatesofCasesofInfectious Diseasesnotified in the several Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs during the year1903.

Table CII.

Showing theAttack RatesofCasesofInfectious Diseasesnotified in the several Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs during the year1903.

Cities and Boroughs.Estimated Population 1903.Small Pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Typhus Fever.Enteric Fever.Other Continued Fevers.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Cholera.Total Attack Rate.
County of London4,613,8120.092.721.680 000.510.000.050.95..6.00
West Districts.
Paddington146,0320.032.861.030.000.300.020.030.82..5.09
Kensington178,4090.031.881.01..0.370.010.020.99..4.31
Hammersmith115,8030.062.731.43..0.510.010.050.94..5.73
F ulham147,7800.072.751.99..0.54..0.130.79..6.27
Chelsea74,1690.092.821.32..0.18..0.080.74..5.23
City of Westminster179,0520.251.971.04..0.390.010.030.62..4.31
North Districts.
St. Marylebone131,2340.033.161.74..0.510.030.051.35..6.87
Hampstead85,1970.012.041.01..0.34..0.010.48..3.89
St. Pancras235.7160.132.802.22..0.37..0.010.95..6.48
Islington339,1370.032.551.34..0.380.000.051.00..5.03
Stoke Newington..52,0690.041.670.77..0.69..0 060.57..3.80
Hackney224,0820.022.982.43..1.210.020.091.25..8.00
Central Districts.
Holborn57.8450.032.490 .90..0.930.030.071.56..6.01
Finsbury99,7170.022.941.29..0.52..0 081.04..5.89
City of London24,539..2.981.10..0.57..0.040.40..5.09
East Districts.....
Shoreditch117,5130.002.211.31..0.840.010.061.25..5.68
Bethnal Green130 0280.023.021.860.010.450.010.051.65..7.07
Stepney302,1530.082.911.800.000.66..0.031.25..6.73
Poplar169,5500.162.652.51..0.55..0.050.85..6.77
South Districts.
Southwark207,3690.192.471.71..0.59..0.061.15..6.17
Bermondsey129,8010.053.091.340.120.59..0.071.40..6.66
Lambeth307,7110.242.421.12..0.440.020.060.75..5.05
Battersea173.4220.212.731.81..0.51..0.050.86..6.17
Wandsworth249,6780.123.292.13..0.400.010.050.94..6.94
Camberwell265,5620.072.511.37..0.390.000.020.88..5.24
Deptford112 5370.024.464.060.020.280.000.051.19..10.08
Greenwich99,8240.041.642.08..0.44..0.070.73..5.00
Lewisham136,4050.003.402.04..0.36..0.060.60..6.46
Woolwich121,4780.053.211.52..0.350.020.010.48..5.64
Port of London