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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 1905
Fiftieth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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121 [1905
TABLE XCVII.
(N.B.— Duplicate notifications have been deducted).
| WARDS. | Estimated Population. 1905. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Enteric (Typhoid) Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Cholera. | Totals. | Cases Notified per 1,000 of Population. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | |
| Tufnell | 33,622 | 100 | 38 | 3 | 26 | 1 | 168 | 4.99 | ||||||
| Upper Holloway | 35,607 | 142 | 41 | 12 | 18 | 1 | 214 | 6.01 | ||||||
| Tollington | 35,549 | 112 | 40 | 9 | 22 | 3 | 186 | 5.23 | ||||||
| Lower Holloway | 41,642 | 130 | 23 | 13 | 36 | 9 | 211 | 5.06 | ||||||
| Highbury | 34,982 | 114 | 45 | 9 | 25 | 2 | 195 | 5.57 | ||||||
| Mildmay | 24,986 | 42 | 42 | 14 | 16 | 1 | 115 | 4.60 | ||||||
| Thornhill | 33.454 | 2 | 96 | 34 | 7 | 29 | 3 | 171 | 5.11 | |||||
| Barnsbury | 20,637 | 71 | 18 | 10 | 17 | 116 | 5.62 | |||||||
| St. Mary's | 17,389 | 97 | 10 | 4 | 19 | 130 | 7.47 | |||||||
| Canonbury | 32,271 | 119 | 38 | 5 | 16 | 2 | 180 | 5.58 | ||||||
| St. Peter's | 32,855 | *1 | 175 | 22 | 14 | 28 | 2 | 242 | 7.36 | |||||
| Totals | 342,994 | 3 | 1198 | 351 | 100 | 252 | 24 | 1928 | 5.62 | |||||
| 1903 | 9 | 865 | 452 | 3 | 130 | 227 | 19 | 2 | 1707 | 5.03 | ||||
| 1904 | 17 | 1146 | 347 | 126 | 1 | 280 | 24 | 1941 | 5.69 | |||||
* Detained in Hospital a few days and then returned as not Small Pox.