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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

Fulham 1902

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1902

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Table: TABLE D. Showing the number of Cases of Infectious Diseases notified to the several Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health during the Year 1902.

TABLE D. Showing the number of Cases of Infectious Diseases notified to the several Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health during the Year 1902.

Cities and Boroughs.Estimated Population in the Middle of 1902.Small.pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria and Membranous CroupTyphus Fever.Enteric Fever.Other Continued Fevers.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Cholera.Total.Annual Rate per 1,000 persons living.
West Districts.
Fulham143,10294552429—74—7121—1,2778.8
Paddington145,107113364222—83114148—9456.4
Kensington177,60599378186—83415189—9545.3
Hammersmith114,210100353182—5117118—8127.0
Chelsea74,01839204133—35—760—4786.4
City of Westminster180,800232475285—13316144—1,2766.9
North Districts.
St. Marylebone132,145154414237—96—14219—1,1348.4
Hampstead83,7432025598—461757—4845.7
St. Pancras235,5213601,219836—197212258—2,88412.0
Islington337,2703021,380881—263519364—3,2149.4
Stoke Newington51,7005120299—22—152—4278.1
Hackney221,926425883721—184617329—2,56511.4
Central Districts.
Holborn58,535219203117—40—785—67111.3
Finsbury100,487211392240—8367155—1,09410.7
City of London25,598398397—15132—26710.3
East Districts.
Shoreditch118,004442250233—15049175—1,26310.5
Bethnal Green129,865516529324—132—10255—1,76613.4
Stepney300,5511,3871,0707801297—22447—4,00413.1
Poplar169,214630670469—210—10191—2,18012.7
South Districts.
Southwark206,8255181,098539—193—10372—2,73013.0
Bermondsey130,218224506283113016190—1,34110.1
Lambeth305,1023621,357490—219111733712,7949.0
Battersea171,401189893294—96—15200—1,6879.7
Wandsworth241,8101311,0797581145121243—2,3799.7
Camberwell262,7753561,3906931146—15309—2,91010.9
Deptford111,577145649268—76—6150—1,29411.4
Greenwich98,013102463183—68—6122—9449.5
Lewisham132,43288664401—60114112—1,34010.0
Woolwich119,556236278252—6111197—9367.7
Port of London—1445—24_———47—
LONDON4,579,1107,79818,25710,73543,412473125,531146,0979.9