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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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1906

Table: TableCVI.Showing theAttack-Ratesof theInfectious Diseasesnotified in the several Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs during the year1906.

TableCVI.

Showing theAttack-Ratesof theInfectious Diseasesnotified in the several Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs during the year1906.

Cities and Boroughs.Estimated Population in the middle of 1906.Small Pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria. *Typhus Fever.Enteric FeverOther Continued Fevers.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.CholeraTotal Attack-Rate.
County ot London4,721,2170.004.311.710.000.340.000.061.060.007.48
West Districts. Paddington148,9130.014.811.23..0.230.010.080.93..7.30
Kensington180,952..2.600.98..0.21..0.070.82..4.68
Hammersmith120,679..3.622.30..0.270.010.101.04..7.34
Fulham161,965..4.162.50..0.28..0.110.86..7.91
Chelsea74,672..3.632.17..0.23..0. 160. 806.99
City of Westminster173 905..3.091.20..0.270.010.050.73..5.35
North Districts. St. Marylebone128,580..3.081.10..0.37..0.051.150.005.75
Hampstead89,633..4.321.11..0.230.010.020.57..6.26
St Pancras236.455..3.381.18..0.40..0.041.00..6.00
Islington344,9870 004.021. 27..0. 43..0. 070. 80..6. 59
Stoke Newington53,217..2.540.88..0.19..0.020.88..4. 51
Hackney230,7210.044.551.70..0.40o.o10.071.31..8.08
Central Districts. Holborn55.805..2. 471.18..0.27..0.041.02..4.98
Finsbury97,466..4.622.03..0.45..0.071.43..8.60
City of London21,367..5.290.84..0.47....0.84..7.44
East Distiicts Shoreditch116,108..5.401.24..0.32..0.051.29..8.30
Bethnal Green130.6090.044.981.93..0.42..0.081.88..9.33
Stepney307,1760.013.971.970.000.40..0.021.35..7 .72
Poplar170,6730 .013.351.46..0.50..0.041.21..6.57
South Districts. Southwark209,143..7.031.92..0.53..0.061.590.0011.13
Bermondsey128,629o.o17.702.61oo10.32..0.011.52..12.18
Lambeth315,774..4 .001.34..0.280. 000.080.87..6 .57
Battersea179.622..5.841.53..0.25..0.070.89..8.58
Wandsworth273,381..3.912.04..0.35..0.080.98..7. 36
Camberwell274,1320.024.241.30..0.21..0.051.11..6.93
Deptford115,4950.015.572.64..0.36..0.071.37..10.02
Greenwich105,350..5.383.88..0.41..0.060.95..10.68
Lewisham148,463..3.751.76..0.17..0.040.65..6.37
Woolwich.127,345..4 133.03..0.32..0.060.76..8.30

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* Including Membranous Croup.