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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
Holborn 1902
Report for the year 1902 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Cases notified as Small-pox in the Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs during 1901 and 1902; and sickness-rates for each year. The figures for each quarter have been taken from the Quarterly Reports of the Registrar-General.
| 1901. | 1902. | 1901. | 1902. | Outbreak 1901-02. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quarters. | Quarters. | Year. | Rate.* | Year. | Rate. * | Total Cases. | Total Rate. | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
| West— | ||||||||||||||
| Paddington | - | — | 4 | 17 | 62 | 45 | 6 | — | 21 | 0.14 | 113 | 0.77 | 134 | 0.91 |
| Kensington | 1 | — | 4 | 10 | 43 | 47 | 9 | — | 15 | 0.08 | 99 | 0.55 | 114 | 0.63 |
| H ammersmith | - | — | 4 | 41 | 61 | 27 | 8 | 4 | 45 | 0.39 | 100 | 0.87 | 145 | 1.26 |
| Fulham | 1 | — | - | 15 | 54 | 31 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 0.11 | 94 | 0.66 | 110 | 0.77 |
| Chelsea | - | — | 2 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 1 | - | 5 | 0.06 | 39 | 0.52 | 44 | 0.58 |
| Westminster | — | — | 9 | 91 | 174 | 56 | 2 | -— | 100 | 0.54 | 232 | 1.28 | 332 | 1.82 |
| North— | ||||||||||||||
| St. Marylebone | - | 2 | 41 | 36 | 111 | 39 | 3 | 1 | 79 | 0.59 | 154 | 1.16 | 233 | 1.75 |
| Hampstead | 1 | — | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | — | — | 7 | 0.08 | 20 | 0.23 | 27 | 0.31 |
| St. Pancras | 1 | 1 | 101 | 153 | 227 | 118 | 15 | — | 256 | 1.08 | 360 | 1.52 | 616 | 2.60 |
| Islington | - | 1 | 13 | 48 | 137 | 141 | 16 | 8 | 62 | 0.18 | 302 | 0.88 | 364 | 1.06 |
| Stoke Newington | - | — | 7 | 12 | 38 | 11 | 2 | — | 19 | 0.36 | 51 | 0.98 | 70 | 1.34 |
| Hackney | — | 1 | 18 | 22 | 196 | 221 | 3 | 5 | 41 | 0.18 | 425 | 1.91 | 466 | 2.09 |
| Central— | ||||||||||||||
| H olborn | - | — | 18 | 198 | 186 | 29 | 3 | 1 | 216 | 3.64 | 219 | 3.74 | 435 | 7.38 |
| Finsbury | - | — | 14 | 79 | 131 | 31 | 46 | 3 | 93 | 0.91 | 211 | 2.09 | 304 | 3.00 |
| City of London | - | — | 2 | 6 | 19 | 11 | 9 | — | 8 | 0.30 | 39 | 1.52 | 47 | 1.82 |
| East— | ||||||||||||||
| Shoreditch | - | — | 2 | 1 | 313 | 118 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 0.15 | 442 | 3.74 | 460 | 3.89 |
| Bethnal Green | - | 1 | 3 | 28 | 276 | 199 | 39 | 1 | 32 | 0.24 | 515 | 3.96 | 547 | 4.20 |
| Stepney | 1 | 1 | 4 | 155 | 929 | 417 | 38 | 3 | 161 | 0.53 | 1387 | 4-61 | 1549 | 5-14 |
| Poplar | 1 | — | 2 | 6? | 332 | 282 | 15 | 1 | 71 | 0'.2 | 630 | 3-71 | 700 | 4-13 |
| South— Southwark | 7 | 82 | 251 | 260 | 7 | 89 | 0-.48 | 518 | 2-50 | 607 | 2-93 | |||
| Bermondsey... | - | — | — | 107 | 101 | 107 | 15 | 1 | 107 | 0.81 | 224 | 1-72 | 331 | 2-53 |
| Lambeth | - | — | 3 | 48 | 189 | 151 | 23 | -— | 51 | 0.16 | 363 | 1-18 | 414 | 1 34 |
| Battersea ... | - | — | 53 | 99 | 66 | 23 | 1 | 53 | 0.31 | 189 | 1-10 | 242 | 1-41 | |
| Wandsworth | 1 | — | 8 | 23 | 70 | 54 | 7 | 32 | 0.13 | 131 | 0'54 | 163 | 0-67 | |
| Camberwell | - | — | — | 54 | 147 | 190 | 17 | 2 | 54 | 0.20 | 356 | 1-35 | 410 | 1-55 |
| Deptford | - | — | — | 4 | 71 | 62 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 0.03 | 145 | 1-29 | 149 | 1-32 |
| Greenwich ... | - | — | — | 11 | 58 | 34 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 0.11 | 101 | l-0i | 112 | 1-14 |
| Lewisham ...... | - | — | 2 | 10 | 50 | 33 | 5 | — | 12 | 0 09 | S8 | 0-66 | 100 | 0-75 |
| Woolwich | - | — | 1 | 22 | 111 | 116 | 7 | 2 | 23 | 0-.9 | 236 | 1-97 | 259 | 2-16 |
| Port of Loudon— | — | — | — | 1 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 1 | — | 14 | — | — | — |
| London— | 7 | 7 | 272 | 1416 | 2928 | 352 | 43 | 1702 | 0.37 | 7798 | 1.70 | 9500 | 2.07 | |
| * Annual rates per 1,000 of estimated population. | ||||||||||||||
It is thus seen that the incidence of the disease was greatest in the Holborn Borough,
having been 7.38 per 1,000 of estimated population, and least in Hampstead, where it was only
031. The maximum number of cases, 1,549, was in Stepney, and the minimum, 27, in
Hampstead.