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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
Kensington 1902
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year1902
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Cases of Infectious Disease notified in the several Metropolitan Boroughs in the Fifty-three Weeks ended Saturday, 3rd January, 1903.*
| Name of Borough. | Small-pox. | Chicken-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Other Continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Membranous Croup. | Cholera. | Totals. | Population. 1901. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95 | 669 | 372 | 183 | 80 | ... | 4 | 15 | 189 | 1 | ... | 1,608 | 176,628 | ||
| Paddington | 113 | 504 | 364 | 217 | 83 | ... | 1 | 14 | 148 | 6 | ... | 1,450 | 143,976 | |
| Hammersmith | 101 | 637 | 853 | 182 | 51 | ... | 1 | 7 | 118 | ... | ... | 1,450 | 112,239 | |
| Fulham | 94 | 472 | 553 | 417 | 74 | ... | ... | 7 | 124 | 12 | ... | 1,753 | 137,289 | |
| Chelsea | 39 | 212 | 204 | 130 | 35 | ... | ... | 7 | 60 | 3 | ... | 690 | 73,842 | |
| City of Westminster | 232 | 742 | 473 | 282 | 132 | ... | 1 | 6 | 144 | 5 | ... | 2,017 | 183,011 | |
| St. Marylebone | 155 | 475 | 414 | 235 | 96 | .... | ... | 14 | 218 | 2 | ... | 1,609 | 133,301 | |
| Hampstead | 20 | 422 | 255 | 97 | 46 | ... | 1 | 7 | 57 | 1 | ... | 906 | 81,942 | |
| St. Pancras | 360 | 1,273 | 1,219 | 827 | 196 | .. | 3 | 13 | 259 | 9 | ... | 4,159 | 235,317 | |
| Islington | 302 | 1,847 | 1,380 | 874 | 264 | ... | 5 | 19 | 364 | 8 | ... | 5,063 | 334,991 | |
| Stoke Newington | 51 | 363 | 202 | 98 | 22 | ... | ... | 1 | 52 | 1 | ... | 790 | 51,247 | |
| Hackney | 423 | 1,495 | 882 | 709 | 185 | ... | 6 | 17 | 329 | 12 | ... | 4,058 | 219,272 | |
| Holborn | 219 | 228 | 203 | 116 | 40 | ... | ... | 7 | 85 | 2 | ... | 900 | 59,405 | |
| Finsbury | 211 | 706 | 391 | 237 | 82 | ... | 6 | 7 | 158 | 1 | ... | 1,799 | 101,463 | |
| City of London | 39 | 85 | 83 | 94 | 15 | ... | 1 | ... | 82 | 3 | ... | 352 | 26,923 | |
| Shoreditch | 442 | 755 | 250 | 223 | 150 | ... | 4 | 9 | 175 | 10 | ... | 2,018 | 118,637 | |
| Bethnal Green | 515 | 863 | 529 | 310 | 132 | ... | ... | 10 | 255 | 14 | ... | 2,628 | 129,680 | |
| Stepney | 1,386 | 1,564 | 1,069 | 744 | 296 | 1 | ... | 22 | 448 | 35 | ... | 5,565 | 298,600 | |
| Poplar | 633 | 847 | 670 | 461 | 209 | ... | ... | 10 | 191 | 9 | ... | 3,030 | 168,822 | |
| Southwark | 517 | 1,293 | 1,099 | 533 | 193 | ... | ... | 10 | 371 | 5 | ... | 4,021 | 206,180 | |
| Bermondsey | 224 | 904 | 506 | 280 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 190 | 3 | ... | 2,245 | 130,760 | |
| Lambeth | 362 | 1,612 | 1,354 | 473 | 218 | ... | 11 | 17 | 337 | 15 | 1 | 4,400 | 301,895 | |
| Battersea | 189 | 1,223 | 893 | 291 | 97 | ... | ... | 15 | 200 | 3 | ... | 2,911 | 169,907 | |
| Wandsworth | 131 | 1,440 | 1,081 | 751 | 145 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 243 | 7 | ... | 3,821 | 232,034 | |
| Camberwell | 356 | 1,534 | 1,390 | 685 | 147 | 1 | ... | 15 | 309 | 8 | ... | 4,445 | 259,339 | |
| Deptford | 145 | 1,261 | 648 | 264 | 74 | ... | ... | 6 | 151 | 4 | ... | 2,553 | 110,398 | |
| Greenwich | 102 | 812 | 468 | 180 | 68 | ... | ... | 6 | 122 | 3 | ... | 1,756 | 95,770 | |
| Lewisham | 88 | 824 | 663 | 400 | 60 | ... | 1 | 14 | 112 | 2 | ... | 2,164 | 127,495 | |
| Woolwich | 236 | 645 | 279 | 244 | 61 | ... | 1 | 11 | 96 | 8 | ... | 1,581 | 117,178 | |
| Port of London | 14 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 24 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 48 | ||
| Grand Totals | 7,794 | 25,708 | 18,246 | 10,542 | 3,405 | 4 | 48 | 313 | 5,537 | 192 | 1 | 71,790 | ||
* The figures in this and the following table collated from the Asylums Board's weekly returns differ slightly from the
revised returns issued by the Registrar-General as shown in the table at foot of page 44.