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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
Fulham 1908
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1908
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TABLE D.
| Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population in the middle of 1908. | NOTIFIED CASKS OK INFECTIOUS DISEASE. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria.* | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other continued Fevers. | Puerpera Fever. | Erysipelas. | Cerebro-spinal Meningitis. | Total. | Annual ratte per 1000 persons living. | ||
| London | 4,795,757 | 4 | 22,072 | 8002 | 4 | 1357 | 13 | 228 | 4203 | 85 | 35,968 | 7.4 |
| Fulham | 159,850 | - | 590 | 400 | - | 39 | - | 17 | 127 | 4 | 1183 | 7.3 |
| Paddington | 150,923 | - | 682 | 150 | - | 31 | 1 | 6 | 105 | 1 | 976 | 6.4 |
| Kensington | 182,752 | - | 453 | 238 | - | 42 | 1 | 11 | 132 | 1 | 878 | 4.7 |
| Hammersmith | 124,012 | - | 394 | 204 | - | 31 | - | 6 | 69 | 1 | 705 | 5.6 |
| Chelsea | 75,049 | - | 174 | 141 | - | 17 | - | 3 | 52 | - | 387 | 5.1 |
| City of Westminster | 170,545 | 1 | 627 | 187 | - | 41 | - | 6 | 81 | 3 | 948 | 5.5 |
| St. Marylebone | 120,887 | - | 411 | 119 | - | 34 | 1 | 8 | 126 | 2 | 701 | 5.4 |
| Hampstead | 92,854 | - | 280 | 64 | - | 25 | 1 | 6 | 33 | - | 409 | 4.3 |
| St. Pancras | 237,075 | 2 | 952 | 308 | 1 | 61 | - | 8 | 158 | 5 | 1495 | 6.2 |
| Islington | 349,091 | - | 1411 | 530 | - | 97 | 1 | 17 | 236 | 7 | 2299 | 6.5 |
| Stoke Newington | 54,015 | - | 202 | 65 | - | 11 | - | 4 | 25 | 2 | 309 | 5.6 |
| Hackney | 235,253 | 1 | 1276 | 389 | - | 66 | - | 12 | 238 | 7 | 1989 | 8.3 |
| Holhorn | 54,466 | - | 194 | 50 | - | 25 | - | 2 | 46 | - | 317 | 5.7 |
| Finsbury | 96,007 | - | 409 | 170 | - | 49 | - | 4 | 95 | 3 | 730 | 7.5 |
| City of London | 19,252 | - | 53 | 29 | - | 7 | - | 1 | 9 | — | 99 | 5.1 |
| Shoreditch | 115,227 | - | 600 | 210 | - | 105 | - | 8 | 127 | 6 | 1054 | 9.0 |
| Bethnal Green | 131,066 | - | 1010 | 278 | - | 83 | - | 6 | 246 | 2 | 1625 | 1 2.2 |
| Stepney | 310,700 | - | 2358 | 658 | 3 | 98 | 2 | 9 | 423 | 2 | 3553 | 11.3 |
| Poplar | 171,510 | - | 1280 | 315 | - | 61 | — | 14 | 191 | 5 | 1866 | 10.7 |
| Southwark | 210,442 | - | 775 | 270 | - | 48 | - | 15 | 234 | 6 | 1348 | 6.3 |
| Bermondsey | 127,910 | - | 641 | 252 | - | 58 | - | 9 | 168 | 3 | 1131 | 8.7 |
| Lambeth | 321.344 | - | 1454 | 345 | - | 66 | 3 | 10 | 225 | 14 | 2117 | 6.5 |
| Battersea | 183,873 | - | 1152 | 366 | - | 41 | - | 7 | 150 | 3 | 1719 | 9.2 |
| Wandsworth | 289,506 | - | 1261 | 591 | - | 61 | - | 13 | 209 | 5 | 2140 | 7.3 |
| Camberwell | 280,022 | - | 1054 | 398 | - | 36 | - | 10 | 233 | 2 | 1733 | 6.1 |
| Deptford | 117,539 | - | 723 | 208 | - | 28 | - | 4 | 171 | - | 1134 | 9.5 |
| Greenwich | 109,110 | - | 428 | 223 | - | 35 | - | 2 | 106 | - | 794 | 7.2 |
| Lewisham | 156,627 | - | 620 | 471 | - | 34 | 3 | 6 | 91 | - | 1225 | 7.7 |
| Woolwich | 131,346 | - | 601 | 368 | - | 20 | - | 6 | 91 | 1 | 1087 | 8.1 |
| Port of London | - | - | 1 | 5 | - | 7 | - | - | 6 | - | 19 | - |
* Including membranous croup.