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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: Table CIV.Showing theAttack Ratesof theInfectious Diseasesnotified in the several Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs during the year1905.

Table CIV.

Showing theAttack Ratesof theInfectious Diseasesnotified in the several Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs during the year1905.

Cities and Boroughs.Estimated Population in the middle of 1905.Small Pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria. *Typhus Fever.Enteric Fever.Other Continued Fevers.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Cholera.Total Attack Rate.
County of London4,684,7940,014.171.370.000.330.000.061.06..7.00
West Districts.
Paddington147,9350,011.880.66..0.31..0.040.93..3.83
Kensington180,083..1.860.72..0.290.010.020.88..3.78
Hammersmith119,037..3.022.03..0.35..0.111.02..6.53
Fulham157,210..4.961.82..0/36..0.150.92..8.21
Chelsea74,496..3.060.70..0.21..0.131.05..5.15
City of Westminster175,6060.012.110.07..0.21..0.070.71..3.80
North Districts.
St. Marylebone129,453..2.151.01..0.36..0.041.25..4.81
Hampstead88,142..2.010.75..0.210.010.020.50..3.53
St. Pancras236,183..4.181.19..0.31..0.040.97..6.69
Islington342,9940.013.491.02..0.29..0.070.74..5.62
Stoke Newington52,8280.023.371.49..0.9..0.020.53..5.62
Hackney228,4790.024.731.680.000.720.000.041.25..8.44
Central Districts.
Holborn56,4810.022.760.82..0.370.020.030.64..4.66
Finsbury98,207..4.641.28..0.43..0.061.17..7.58
City of London22,425..3.390.71..0.13..1.12..5.35
East Districts
Shoreditch116,5650.016.811.56..0.300.010.081.20..9.97
Bethnal Green130,4010.036.092.34..0.470.010.051.55..10.54
Stepney305,4660.046.042.090.020.42..0.051.70..10.36
Poplar170,280..5.822.88..0.42..0.051.22..10.39
South Districts.
Southwark208,528..3.721.46..0.36..0.051.41..7.00
Bermondsey129,006..5.831.29..0.32..0.051.24..8.73
Lambeth313,046..3.271.44..0.240.000.040.94..5.93
Battersea177,532..4.781.08..0.19..0.090.99..7.13
Wandsworth265,3920.005.621.32..0.370.000.070.96..8.34
Camberwell271.2400.044.500.91..0.23..0.091.27..7.04
Deptford114,4950.015.321.29..0.30..0.061.34..8.32
Greenwich103,4930.042.731.42..0.26..0.060.89..5.40
Lewisham144,4200.063.961.09..0.26..0.080.75..6.20
125,3720.064.112.19..0.210.000.090.66..7.32

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* Including Membranous Croup.