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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 1902
Forty-seventh annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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1902
Table XCVI.
| Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population In the middle of 1902. | Notified Casks of Infectious Disease. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria.* | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Cholera. | Total. | ||
| LONDON | 4 579,110 | 7,772 | 18,250 | 10,732 | 4 | 3,400 | 47 | 312 | 5 527 | 1 | 46,004 |
| Paddington | 145,107 | 113 | 364 | 222 | .. | 83 | 1 | 14 | 148 | .. | 945 |
| Kensington | 77,005 | 99 | 378 | 186 | .. | 83 | 4 | 15 | 189 | .. | 954 |
| Hammersmith | 114,210 | 100 | 353 | 182 | .. | 51 | 1 | 7 | 118 | .. | 812 |
| Fulham | I43,I02 | 94 | 553 | 429 | .. | 74 | .. | 7 | 124 | .. | 1,281 |
| Chelsea | 74,0I8 | 39 | 204 | 133 | .. | 35 | .. | 7 | 60 | .. | 478 |
| City of Westminster | 180,800 | 232 | 475 | 285 | .. | I33 | I | 6 | I44 | .. | 1,276 |
| St Marylebone | 132,069 | 154 | 414 | 237 | .. | 96 | .. | 14 | 219 | .. | 1,134 |
| Hampstead | 83,743 | 20 | 255 | 98 | .. | 46 | 1 | 7 | 57 | .. | 484 |
| St Pancras | 235,596 | 360 | 1,219 | 830 | .. | 197 | 2 | 12 | 258 | .. | 2,884 |
| IslIngton | 337,268 | 276 | I,372 | 878 | .. | 257 | 5 | I9 | 357 | .. | 3,164 |
| Stoke Newington | 51,700 | 51 | 202 | 99 | .. | 22 | .. | 1 | 52 | .. | 427 |
| Hackney | 221,920 | 425 | 883 | 721 | .. | 184 | 6 | 17 | 329 | .. | 2,565 |
| Holborn | 58,535 | 219 | 203 | 117 | .. | 40 | .. | 7 | 85 | .. | 671 |
| Finsbury | 100,487 | 211 | 392 | 240 | .. | 83 | 6 | 7 | 155 | .. | 1,094 |
| City of London | 25,598 | 39 | 83 | 97 | .. | 15 | 1 | .. | 32 | .. | 207 |
| Shoreditch | 117,980 | 442 | 250 | 233 | .. | 150 | 4 | 9 | 175 | .. | 1,263 |
| Bethnal Green | 129,889 | 510 | 529 | 324 | .. | 132 | .. | 10 | 255 | .. | 1,766 |
| Stepney | 300,551 | 1387 | 1070 | 780 | 1 | 297 | .. | 22 | 447 | .. | 4,004 |
| Poplar | 169,214 | 630 | 070 | 469 | .. | 210 | .. | 10 | 191 | .. | 2,180 |
| Southwark | 206,825 | 518 | 1098 | 539 | .. | 193 | .. | 10 | 372 | .. | 2,730 |
| Bermondsey | 130.218 | 224 | 500 | 283 | 1 | I30 | 1 | 6 | I90 | .. | 1,341 |
| Lambeth | 305,102 | 362 | 1357 | 490 | .. | 2I9 | 11 | I7 | 337 | .. | 2,794 |
| Battersea | 171,40I | 189 | 893 | 294 | .. | 96 | .. | 15 | 200 | .. | 1,687 |
| Wandsworth | 241,810 | 131 | 1079 | 758 | 1 | I45 | 1 | 21 | 243 | .. | 2,379 |
| Camberwell | 262,775 | 356 | 1390 | 693 | 1 | I46 | .. | 15 | 309 | .. | 2,910 |
| Deptford | 111,577 | 145 | 649 | 268 | .. | 76 | .. | 6 | 150 | .. | 1,294 |
| Greenwich | 98,013 | 102 | 463 | 183 | .. | 68 | .. | 6 | 122 | .. | 944 |
| Lewisham | 132,432 | 88 | 664 | 401 | .. | 60 | 1 | 14 | 112 | .. | 1,340 |
| Woolwich | 119,556 | 236 | 278 | 252 | .. | 61 | 1 | 11 | 97 | .. | 936 |
| Port of London | .. | 14 | 4 | 5 | .. | 24 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 47 |
* IncludIng Membranous Croup.