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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 1906
Fifty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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145 [1906
TABLE XCIX.
(N.B.—Duplicate notifications have been deducted).
| WARDS. | Estimated Population. 1906. | 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 | 34,028 | ... | 139 | 25 | ... | 7 | ... | 20 | 2 | ... | ... | ... | 193 | 5.67 |
| Upper Holloway | 36,012 | ... | 135 | 56 | 1 | 22 | ... | 26 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 241 | 6.69 |
| Tollington | 35.954 | ... | 67 | 49 | ... | 27 | ... | 14 | 3 | ... | ... | ... | 160 | 4.45 |
| Lower Holloway | 41,696 | ... | 204 | 60 | ... | 18 | ... | 27 | 4 | ... | ... | ... | 313 | 7.50 |
| Highbury | 35.050 | ... | 133 | 50 | ... | 16 | 1 | 28 | 3 | ... | ... | ... | 231 | 6.59 |
| Mildmay | 25.054 | 1 | 68 | 22 | ... | 2 | ... | 23 | I | ... | ... | ... | 117 | 4.67 |
| Thornhill | 33,498 | ... | 121 | 47 | 1 | 14 | ... | 41 | 5 | I | ... | ... | 230 | 6.87 |
| Barnsbury | 20,497 | ... | 70 | 28 | ... | 16 | ... | 26 | 2 | ... | ... | ... | 142 | 6.93 |
| St. Mary's | 17,436 | ... | 97 | 27 | 2 | ... | 13 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 140 | 8.03 | |
| Canonbury | 32,837 | ... | 155 | 35 | ... | 2 | ... | 16 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 209 | 6.37 |
| St. Peter's | 32,925 | ... | 197 | 38 | ... | 23 | ... | 40 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 299 | 9.08 |
| Totals | 344,987 | 1 | 1386 | 437 | 2 | 149 | 1 | 274 | 24 | I | ... | ... | 2275 | 6.59 |
| 1904 | 17 | 1146 | 347 | ... | 126 | 1 | 280 | 24 | ... | ... | ... | 1941 | 5'69 | |
| 1905 | *3 | 1198 | 351 | ... | 100 | ... | 252 | 24 | ... | ... | ... | 1928 | 5.62 |
* One case detained in Hospital a few days and then returned as not Small Pox
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