Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Forty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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Table LXXXIV. Showing the Case Rates per 1,000 of the population arising from the several Infectious Diseases in the several Metropolitan Sanitary Districts.
District in which the Patient were resident. | Estimated Population, 1900. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Typhoid or Enteric Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Continued Fever. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Totals. |
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Battersea | 178,100 | .. | 3· 06 | 1·74 | 0·03 | 1·15 | .. | 0·00 | .. | 0·92 | 0·03 | 6·94 |
Bermondsey | 85,920 | .. | 3·00 | 4·04 | 0·06 | 1·40 | .. | .. | .. | 0·70 | 0·06 | 9·26 |
Bethnal Green | 128,831 | 0.03 | 2.87 | 3.04 | 0.12 | 1.19 | .. | 0.00 | .. | 1.82 | 0.06 | 9.14 |
Camberwell | 268,457 | 0.01 | 3.04 | 3.32 | 0.04 | 0.70 | .. | 0.02 | .. | 0.80 | 0.04 | 7. 97 |
Chelsea | 96,715 | 0.02 | 2.41 | 1.85 | 0.02 | 0.84 | 0·01 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.73 | 0.07 | 6.00 |
Clerkenwell | 66,007 | .. | 2.10 | 1.82 | 0.01 | 0.91 | .. | 0.01 | .. | 1.15 | 0.01 | 6.02 |
Fulham | 136,383 | 0.07 | 4 .03 | 4.66 | 0.67 | 0.67 | .. | 0.01 | .. | 1.12 | 0.07 | 10. 70 |
Greenwich | 184,582 | .. | 3.71 | 2.73 | 0.10 | 0.96 | .. | 0.01 | .. | 1.30 | 0.05 | 8.86 |
Hackney | 225,519 | 0.07 | 3.08 | 2.73 | 0.03 | 1.01 | 0.00 | 0.02 | .. | 1.03 | 0.07 | 8.04 |
Hammersmith | 110,203 | 0.01 | 3.20 | 2.29 | .. | 0.94 | .. | 0.01 | .. | 1.03 | 0.05 | 7.53 |
Hampstead | 81,766 | .. | 2.74 | 1.91 | 0.05 | 0 .61 | .. | .. | .. | 0.61 | 0.05 | 5.97 |
Holborn | 29,188 | .. | 3.43 | 2.30 | .. | 0.86 | .. | 0.03 | .. | 1.40 | .. | 8.02 |
Islington | 351,541 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Kensington | 173,603 | 0·03 | 2·1l | 1·89 | 0·02 | 0·60 | .. | 0·06 | .. | 0·91 | 0·05 | 5-68 |
Lambeth | 312,152 | 0·00 | 2·64 | 2·70 | 0·02 | 0·90 | .. | 0·05 | 0·00 | 0·76 | 0·04 | 7·12 |
Lee | 40,722 | .. | 3·36 | 3·98 | 0·02 | 0·44 | .. | .. | .. | 0·62 | 0·05 | 8·17 |
Lewisham | 93,548 | .. | 4-47 | 3·28 | 0·04 | 0·63 | .. | 0 75 | 004 | 9 21 | ||
Limehouse | 58,994 | 0 02 | 2 92 | 3 05 | 1-27 | .. | .. | 1·82 | 0·03 | 9·11 | ||
Marylebone | 139,777 | 0·04 | 2·73 | 1·53 | 0·02 | 0·58 | .. | .. | .. | 1.43 | 0.04 | 6.37 |
Mile End Old Town | 113·781 | 0·00 | 2·94 | 2·54 | 0·07 | 1·05 | .. | .. | .. | 1·55 | 0·05 | 8·20 |
Paddington | 130,104 | 0·04 | 2·35 | 1·18 | 0·01 | 0·43 | 0·01 | 0·02 | .. | 0·95 | 0·05 | 5·04 |
Plumstedd | 65,558 | .. | 4·55 | 3·63 | 0·06 | 0·60 | .. | 0·03 | .. | 1·11 | 0·06 | 10·04 |
Poplar | 170,968 | 0·01 | 2·93 | 3·63 | 0·15 | 1·58 | 0·00 | 0·01 | .. | 1·14 | 0·05 | 9·50 |
Rotherhithe | 41,246 | .. | 2·47 | 2·59 | 0·14 | 1·87 | .. | .. | .. | 1·72 | 0·07 | 8·87 |
Shoreditch | 120,641 | 0·02 | 2·71 | 2·85 | 0·08 | 1·04 | . . | 0·01 | . . | 1·43 | 0·07 | 8·21 |
St. George-in-the-East | 48,875 | 0·14 | 2·82 | 2·33 | 0·08 | 1·33 | .. | .. | .. | 1·76 | 0·17 | 8·63 |
St. George, Hanover Sq. | 81,133 | 0·02 | 2·06 | 1·10 | 0·04 | 0·68 | . . | 0·04 | 0·58 | 0·01 | 4 ·53 | |
St. George, Southwark | 60.597 | .. | 4·14 | 3·57 | 0·08 | 2·95 | .. | 0·01 | .. | 1·24 | 0·03 | 12 ·03 |
St. Giles | 36,870 | . . | 2·66 | 1·57 | 0·05 | 0·89 | .. | .. | .. | 1·38 | 0·04 | 6 ·59 |
St. James, Westminster | 21,457 | .. | 2·89 | 1·82 | .. | 0·56 | . . | .. | .. | 0·75 | .. | 6·02 |
St. Luke's, Middlesex | 40,655 | . . | 2·36 | 1·85 | 0·02 | 0·79 | .. | .. | .. | 1·43 | 0·02 | 6 ·47 |
St. Margaret's and St. John's, Westminster | 51,657 | .. | 2·36 | 2·02 | 0·01 | 0·62 | .. | .. | .. | 1·03 | 0-08 | 6 ·12 |
St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 11,865 | .. | 2·02 | 1·18 | .. | 0·84 | .. | .. | .. | 0·34 | .. | 4·38 |
St. Mary, Newington | 125,138 | 0·00 | 2·85 | 3·50 | 0·08 | 0·81 | .. | .. | 0·00 | 1·08 | 0·08 | 8·40 |
St. Olave, Southwark | 10,909 | . . | 3·39 | 1·28 | .. | 0·64 | .. | .. | .. | 0·83 | .. | 6·14 |
St. Pancras | 245,651 | 0·03 | 2·68 | 2·38 | 0·02 | 1·45 | .. | 0·00 | .. | 0·95 | 0·05 | 7·56 |
St. Saviour, Southwark | 23,854 | , , | 3·44 | 4·82 | 0·04 | 1·13 | .. | .. | .. | 0·96 | 0·09 | 10· 48 |
Stoke Newington | 35,718 | . . | 3·53 | 3 ·56 | 0·08 | 0·67 | .. | .. | .. | 0·84 | .. | 8·79 |
Strand | 22.748 | .. | 3·47 | 1·63 | 0·04 | 0·44 | .. | 0·04 | .. | 0·40 | .. | 6·02 |
Wandsworth | 217,004 | 0·02 | 3·10 | 2·06 | 0·03 | 0·71 | .. | 0·00 | .. | 0·95 | 0·06 | 6·93 |
Whitechapel | 82,220 | 0·01 | 4·85 | 3·13 | 0·06 | 0·96 | 0·01 | .. | .. | 1·57 | 0·07 | 10·67 |
Woolwich | 41,600 | 0·04 | 3·22 | 2·36 | 0·02 | 0·55 | .. | .. | .. | 0·94 | 0·04 | 7·18 |
City of London | 26,922 | . . | 3·08 | 2·45 | . . | 1.08 | .. | .. | .. | 0.78 | .. | 7.39 |
Port of London | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
London | 4,589,129 | 0.02 | 3.01 | 2.57 | 0.05 | 0.94 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 1.04 | 0.05 | 7.68 |