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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 1904
Forty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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Table CIII.
| Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population in the middle of 1904. | Notified Cases of Infectious Disease. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria.* | Typhus Fever | Enteric Fever. | Other continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Cholera. | Total. | ||
| LONDON | 4.648,950 | 488 | 13,435 | 7,219 | 3 | 1,894 | 29 | 273 | 4,943 | .. | 28,284 |
| Paddington | 146,975 | 4 | 363 | 143 | .. | 48 | .. | 10 | 117 | .. | 685 |
| Kensington | 179,236 | 3 | 265 | 187 | .. | 47 | 3 | 11 | 141 | .. | 657 |
| Hammersmith | 117,412 | .. | 284 | 204 | .. | 39 | 1 | 12 | 123 | .. | 663 |
| Fulham | 152,482 | .. | 295 | 300 | .. | 39 | .. | 8 | 130 | .. | 772 |
| Chelsea | 74,329 | 108 | 61 | .. | 13 | .. | 7 | 45 | .. | 234 | |
| City of Westminster | 177,321 | 6 | 313 | 145 | 1 | 51 | 2 | 5 | 126 | .. | 649 |
| St. Marylebone | 130,337 | 8 | 294 | 118 | .. | 50 | .. | 3 | 187 | .. | 660 |
| Hampstead | 86,663 | 1 | 169 | 57 | .. | 27 | 1 | 6 | 56 | .. | 317 |
| St Pancras | 235,936 | 7 | 848 | 349 | .. | 136 | .. | 10 | 258 | .. | 1,608 |
| Islington | 341.044 | 17 | 1,146 | 347 | 1 | 126 | .. | 24 | 280 | .. | 1,941 |
| Stoke Newington | 52,445 | 8 | 154 | 61 | .. | 14 | .. | 3 | 53 | .. | 293 |
| Hackney | 226,266 | 13 | 858 | 572 | .. | 185 | 3 | 23 | 266 | .. | 1,920 |
| Holborn | 57,161 | 6 | 98 | 46 | .. | 41 | .. | 7 | 76 | .. | 274 |
| Finsbury | 98,958 | 15 | 330 | 145 | .. | 46 | .. | 5 | 106 | .. | 647 |
| City of London | 23,482 | 2 | 32 | 40 | .. | 14 | .. | •• | 21 | .. | 109 |
| Shoreditch | 117 033 | 14 | 343 | 188 | .. | 48 | 2 | 5 | 177 | .. | 777 |
| Bethnal Green | 130,207 | 126 | 661 | 425 | .. | 58 | 4 | 12 | 224 | .. | 1,510 |
| Stepney | 303,791 | 89 | 1,261 | 821 | 1 | 198 | .. | 15 | 467 | .. | 2,852 |
| Poplar | 169,905 | 42 | 548 | 670 | .. | 93 | 1 | 15 | 204 | .. | 1,573 |
| Southwark | 207,937 | 28 | 415 | 281 | .. | 92 | .. | 12 | 298 | .. | 1,126 |
| Bermondsey | 129,397 | 19 | 454 | 193 | .. | 73 | 1 | 5 | 186 | .. | 931 |
| Lambeth | 310,359 | 27 | 658 | 327 | .. | 100 | 4 | 16 | 248 | .. | 1,380 |
| Battersea | 175,465 | 7 | 385 | 227 | .. | 63 | 2 | 7 | 160 | .. | 851 |
| Wandsworth | 257,448 | 6 | 772 | 404 | .. | 71 | 3 | 14 | 270 | .. | 1,540 |
| Camberwell | 268,384 | 19 | 956 | 270 | .. | 78 | 1 | 13 | 328 | .. | 1,665 |
| Deptford | 113,509 | 11 | 405 | 195 | .. | 30 | .. | 10 | 151 | .. | 802 |
| Greenwich | 101,651 | 1 | 213 | 152 | .. | 49 | .. | 2 | 86 | .. | 503 |
| Lewisham | 140,401 | .. | 337 | 130 | .. | 29 | .. | 8 | 83 | .. | 587 |
| Woolwich | 123,416 | 8 | 469 | 161 | .. | 27 | 1 | 5 | 75 | .. | 746 |
| Port of London | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 9 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 12 |
* Including Membranous Croup.