Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1903
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TABLE D. Showing the number of Cases of Infectious Diseases notified to the several Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health during the Year 1903.
CITIES AND BOROUGHS. | Estimated population in the middle of 1903. | Small-Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Cholera. | Total. | Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. |
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West Districts. | ||||||||||||
Fulham | 147,780 | 11 | 406 | 293 | – | 80 | – | 19 | 115 | – | 924 | 6.3 |
Paddington | 146,032 | 5 | 417 | 150 | 1 | 44 | 3 | 4 | 119 | – | 743 | 5.1 |
Kensington | 178,409 | 5 | 335 | 180 | – | 66 | 2 | 4 | 177 | – | 769 | 4.3 |
Hammersmith | 115,803 | 7 | 316 | 166 | – | 59 | 1 | 6 | 109 | – | 664 | 5.7 |
Chelsea | 74,169 | 7 | 209 | 98 | – | 13 | – | 6 | 55 | – | 388 | 5.2 |
City of Westminster | 179,052 | 45 | 352 | 186 | – | 71 | 2 | 5 | 111 | – | 772 | 4.3 |
North Districts. | ||||||||||||
St. Marylebone | 131,234 | 4 | 414 | 228 | – | 67 | 4 | 7 | 177 | – | 901 | 6.9 |
Hampstead | 85,197 | 1 | 174 | 86 | – | 29 | – | 1 | 41 | – | 332 | 3.9 |
St. Pancras | 235,716 | 31 | 658 | 522 | – | 88 | – | 5 | 224 | – | 1528 | 6.5 |
Islington | 339,137 | 12 | 867 | 458 | – | 131 | 2 | 19 | 228 | – | 1717 | 5.1 |
Stoke Newington | 52,069 | 2 | 87 | 40 | – | 35 | 1 | 2 | 30 | – | 197 | 3.8 |
Hackney | 224,082 | 4 | 667 | 545 | – | 271 | 5 | 21 | 281 | – | 1794 | 8.0 |
Central Districts. | ||||||||||||
Holborn | 57,845 | 2 | 144 | 52 | – | 54 | 2 | 4 | 90 | – | 348 | 6.0 |
Finsbury | 99,717 | 2 | 293 | 129 | – | 52 | – | 8 | 106 | – | 590 | 5.9 |
City of London | 24,539 | – | 73 | 27 | – | 14 | – | 1 | 10 | – | 125 | 5.1 |
East Districts. | ||||||||||||
Shoreditch | 117,513 | – | 259 | 154 | – | 99 | 1 | 7 | 147 | – | 667 | 5.7 |
Bethnal Green | 130,028 | 3 | 392 | 242 | 2 | 59 | 1 | 6 | 214 | – | 919 | 7.1 |
Stepney | 302,153 | 26 | 878 | 543 | 1 | 199 | – | 10 | 376 | – | 2033 | 6.7 |
Poplar | 169,550 | 28 | 450 | 425 | – | 93 | – | 8 | 144 | – | 1148 | 6.8 |
South Districts. | ||||||||||||
Southwark | 207,369 | 40 | 512 | 354 | – | 122 | – | 13 | 239 | – | 1280 | 6.2 |
Bermondsey | 129,801 | 7 | 401 | 174 | 16 | 76 | – | 9 | 182 | – | 865 | 6.7 |
136 | Lambeth | 307,711 | 73 | 745 | 346 | – | 7 | 18 | 231 | – | 1556 | 5.1 |
Battersea | 173,422 | 37 | 474 | 314 | – | 89 | – | 8 | 149 | – | 1071 | 6.2 |
Wandsworth | 249,678 | 29 | 821 | 532 | 101 | 3 | 13 | 235 | – | 1734 | 7.0 | |
Camberwell | 265,562 | 19 | 666 | 365 | – | 103 | 2 | 6 | 233 | – | 1394 | 5.3 |
Deptford | 112,537 | 2 | 502 | 456 | 2 | 31 | 1 | 6 | 134 | – | 1134 | 10.1 |
Greenwich | 99,824 | 4 | 164 | 208 | – | 44 | – | 7 | 73 | – | 500 | 5.0 |
Lewiaham | 136,405 | 1 | 463 | 278 | – | 49 | – | 8 | 82 | – | 881 | 6.5 |
Woolwich | 121,478 | 6 | 390 | 184 | – | 42 | 3 | 2 | 58 | – | 685 | 5.7 |
Port of London | – | 3 | 2 | 2 | – | 22 | – | – | 1 | – | 30 | – |
COUNTY OF LONDON. | 4,613,812 | 416 | 12,531 | 7,737 | 22 | 2,339 | 40 | 233 | 4,371 | – | 27,689 | 6.0 |