Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1908
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The following table of Deaths from Infectious Diseases is compiled from the Registrar's General Report,
Boroughs. | Estimated Population in the middle of 1908 | Deaths from | Deaths under 1 year of age. | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever, | Diphtheria. | Whooping-cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Pyrexia (Origin uncertain). | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis, | |||
LONDON | 4,795.757 | - | 1524 | 548 | 724 | 984 | - | 225 | 2 | 2592 | 6419 | 13943 |
Paddington | 150,923 | - | 35 | 15 | l6 | 11 | - | 4 | - | 52 | 155 | 348 |
Kensington | 182,752 | - | 32 | 9 | 27 | 7 | _ | 5 | . | 89 | 182 | 424 |
Hammersmith | 124,012 | - | 15 | 11 | 13 | 19 | - | 5 | - | 74 | 159 | 383 |
Fulham | 171,562 | - | 71 | 17 | 32 | 34 | _ | 10 | _ | 113 | 199 | 545 |
Chelsea | 75,049 | - | 12 | 8 | 12 | 17 | - | 5 | - | 36 | 97 | 167 |
City of Wstmnstr. | 170,545 | - | 23 | 7 | l6 | 8 | - | J 6 | - | 42 | 213 | 296 |
St. Marylebone | 126,867 | - | 25 | 13 | 14 | 13 | _ | 6 | - | 39 | 149 | 268 |
Hampstead | 92,654 | - | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | - | 5 | - | 12 | 73 | 97 |
St. Pancras | 237,075 | - | 46 | 20 | 22 | 69 | - | 10 | - | 88 | 363 | 635 |
Islington | 349,091 | - | 80 | 31 | 57 | 55 | . | 18 | _ | 112 | 440 | 897 |
Stoke Newington | 54,015 | - | 10 | 5 | 1 | 6 | _ | 4 | - | 19 | 59 | 100 |
Hackney | 235,253 | - | 75 | 31 | 45 | 44 | - | 7 | - | 7 163 | 292 | 641 |
Holborn | 54,466 | _ | 11 | 7 | 5 | 8 | - | 5 | - | 23 | 117 | 123 |
Finsbury | 96,007 | _ | 44 | 13 | 16 | 25 | - | 12 | - | 210 | 405 | |
City of London | 19,252 | - | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 35 | 27 |
Shoreditch | 115,227 | - | 51 | 29 | 13 | 24 | - | 11 | - | 117 | 234 | 521 |
Bethnal Green | 131,066 | - | 104 | 40 | 28 | 42 | - | 13 | - | 102 | 215 | 572 |
Stepney | 310,706 | - | 264 | 55 | 75 | 129 | - | 14 | 1 | 262 | 494 | 1 320 |
Poplar | 171,516 | - | 82 | 37 | 33 | 73 | _ | 14 | - | 155 | 234 | 673 |
Southwark | 210,442 | _ | 77 | 24 | 32 | 50 | - | 7 | _ | 188 | 403 | 820 |
Bermondsey | 127,910 | _ | 107 | 25 | 23 | 22 | - | 12 | 1 | 109 | 246 | 600 |
Lambeth | 321,344 | _ | 101 | 42 | 45 | 50 | 8 | - | 141 | 472 | 832 | |
Battersea | 183,873 | - | 48 | 24 | 22 | 39 | 5 | - | 83 | 223 | 496 | |
Wandsworth | 289,506 | - | 44 | 21 | 37 | 62 | _ | 7 | _ | 104 | 282 | |
Camberwell | 280,022 | - | 54 | 24 | 41 | 54 | - | 7 | - | 126 | 318 | 716 |
Deptford | 117.539 | - | 33 | 7 | 10 | 24 | - | 8 | - | 75 | 138 | 384 |
Greenwich | 109,110 | _ | 16 | 6 | 18 | 31 | _ | 9 | _ | 122 | 311 | |
Lewisham | 156,627 | _ | 46 | 11 | 43 | 30 | _ | 4 | - | 63 | 135 | 316 |
Woolwich | 131,346 | - | 10 | 9 | 21 | 32 | - | 3 | - | 48 | 160 | 300 |