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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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Table CIII.
| Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population in the middle of 1905. | Notified Cases of Infectious Disease. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. * | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Cholera. | Total. | ||
| london | 4.684,794 | 70 | 19,516 | 6,400 | 8 | 1,547 | 14 | 291 | 4,969 | .. | 32,815 |
| Paddington | 147,935 | 2 | 278 | 97 | .. | 46 | .. | 7 | 137 | .. | 567 |
| Kensington | 180,088 | .. | 335 | 130 | .. | 53 | 2 | 4 | 158 | .. | 682 |
| Hammersmith | 119,037 | .. | 360 | 242 | .. | 41 | .. | 13 | 122 | .. | 778 |
| Fulham | 157,210 | .. | 780 | 286 | .. | 56 | .. | 24 | 145 | .. | 1,291 |
| Chelsea | 74,496 | .. | 228 | 52 | .. | 16 | .. | 10 | 78 | .. | 384 |
| City of Westminster | 175,606 | 2 | 370 | 118 | .. | 41 | .. | 12 | 124 | .. | 667 |
| St. Marylebone | 129,453 | .. | 278 | 131 | .. | 46 | .. | 6 | 162 | .. | 623 |
| Hampstead | 88,142 | .. | 180 | 66 | .. | 18 | 1 | 2 | 44 | .. | 311 |
| St Pancras | 236,183 | .. | 987 | 282 | .. | 72 | 1 | 10 | 228 | .. | 1,580 |
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| Stoke Newington.. | 52,828 | 1 | 178 | 79 | .. | 10 | .. | 1 | 28 | .. | 297 |
| Hackney | 228,479 | 4 | 1081 | 384 | 1 | 165 | 1 | 8 | 286 | .. | 1,930 |
| Holborn | 56,481 | 1 | 156 | 46 | .. | 21 | 1 | 2 | 36 | .. | 263 |
| Finsbury | 98,207 | .. | 456 | 126 | .. | 42 | .. | 6 | 115 | .. | 745 |
| City of London | 22,425 | .. | 76 | 16 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | 25 | .. | 120 |
| Shoreditch | 116,565 | 2 | 793 | 182 | .. | 35 | 2 | 9 | 139 | .. | 1,162 |
| Bethnal Green | 130,401 | 4 | 794 | 305 | .. | 61 | 2 | 6 | 202 | .. | 1,374 |
| Stepney | 305,466 | 13 | 1,844 | 639 | 7 | 127 | .. | 15 | 519 | .. | 3,164 |
| Poplar | 170,280 | .. | 991 | 491 | .. | 71 | .. | 8 | 208 | .. | 1,769 |
| Southwark | 208,528 | .. | 776 | 304 | .. | 74 | .. | 11 | 295 | .. | 1,460 |
| Bermondsey | 129,006 | .. | 752 | 167 | .. | 41 | .. | 7 | 160 | .. | 1,127 |
| Lambeth | 313,045 | .. | 1,025 | 451 | .. | 75 | 2 | 12 | 293 | .. | 1,858 |
| Battersea | 177,532 | .. | 848 | 192 | .. | 33 | .. | 16 | 176 | .. | 1,265 |
| Wandsworth | 265,392 | 1 | 1,490 | 350 | .. | 99 | 1 | 18 | 254 | .. | 2,213 |
| Camberwell | 271,240 | 13 | 1,220 | 247 | .. | 62 | .. | 24 | 344 | .. | 1,910 |
| Deptford | 114,495 | 2 | 609 | 148 | .. | 34 | .. | 7 | 153 | .. | 953 |
| Greenwich | 103,493 | 4 | 283 | 147 | .. | 27 | .. | 6 | 92 | .. | 559 |
| Lewisham | 144,420 | 9 | 572 | 157 | .. | 38 | .. | 11 | 108 | .. | 895 |
| Woolwich | 125,372 | 7 | 515 | 274 | .. | 25 | 1 | 12 | 83 | .. | 918 |
| Port of London | .. | 2 | 3 | •• | .. | 14 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 22 |
* Including Membranous Croup.