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Islington 1909
Fifty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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1909
Table CVII. Showing the Cases of Infectious Disease notified in the several Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs during the year 1909.
| Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population in the middle of 1909. | Notified Casks of Infectious Disease. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria.* | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Cerebro-spinal meningitis. | Total. | ||
| LONDON | 4,833,938 | 21 | 17,254 | 6,679 | 7 | 1,043 | 20 | 287 | 4,192 | 111 | 29,614 |
| West Districts. | |||||||||||
| Paddington | 151,955 | .. | 630 | 184 | .. | 29 | .. | 3 | 106 | 4 | 956 |
| Kensington | 183,683 | .. | 420 | 177 | .. | 48 | .. | 7 | 135 | 4 | 791 |
| Hammersmith | 125,704 | .. | 389 | 192 | .. | 16 | .. | 14 | 76 | 1 | 688 |
| Fulham | 176,406 | .. | 511 | 322 | .. | 41 | 1 | 34 | 115 | 3 | 1,027 |
| Chelsea | 75,249 | .. | 307 | 98 | .. | 12 | 2 | 1 | 40 | .. | 460 |
| City of Westminster | 168,883 | 1 | 590 | 225 | .. | 25 | .. | 5 | 102 | 3 | 951 |
| North Districts. | |||||||||||
| St. Marylebone | 126,027 | .. | 458 | 113 | .. | 21 | .. | 3 | 134 | 6 | 735 |
| Hampstead | 94,186 | .. | 259 | 47 | .. | 16 | .. | 5 | 30 | 4 | 361 |
| St. Pancras | 237,422 | l | 771 | 320 | .. | 50 | .. | 15 | 155 | 6 | 1,318 |
| Islington | 351,202 | 3 | 1,285 | 430 | 1 | 95 | .. | 14 | 221 | 11 | 2,060 |
| Stoke Newington | 54,423 | .. | 110 | 28 | .. | 11 | .. | 4 | 27 | .. | 180 |
| Hackney | 237,601 | 1 | 784 | 264 | .. | 59 | 1 | 15 | 271 | 6 | 1,401 |
| Central Districts. | |||||||||||
| Holborn | 53,802 | 1 | 97 | 47 | .. | 16 | 1 | 3 | 41 | .. | 206 |
| Finsbury | 95,289 | .. | 240 | 167 | 1 | 13 | .. | 5 | 132 | 3 | 561 |
| City of London | 18,193 | 1 | 38 | 19 | .. | 4 | .. | 1 | 10 | .. | 73 |
| East Districts. | |||||||||||
| Shoreditch | 114,802 | .. | 340 | 186 | .. | 51 | .. | 14 | 144 | 2 | 737 |
| Bethnal Green | 131,316 | l | 566 | 184 | .. | 33 | l | 7 | 164 | 5 | 961 |
| Stepney | 312,525 | 8 | 1,038 | 583 | 2 | 71 | l | 13 | 487 | 4 | 2,207 |
| Poplar | 171,965 | .. | 731 | 213 | .. | 54 | .. | 13 | 177 | 8 | 1,196 |
| South Districts. | |||||||||||
| Southwark | 211,125 | 2 | 590 | 256 | .. | 35 | l | 6 | 224 | 5 | 1,119 |
| Bermondsey | 127,569 | .. | 459 | 197 | 3 | 30 | .. | 7 | 142 | 4 | 842 |
| Lambeth | 324,188 | .. | 1,171 | 378 | .. | 50 | l | 16 | 191 | 14 | 1,821 |
| Battersea | 186,036 | .. | 733 | 288 | .. | 54 | .. | 14 | 156 | 4 | 1,249 |
| Wandsworth | 297,640 | .. | 997 | 371 | .. | 66 | .. | 26 | 193 | 4 | 1,659 |
| Camberwell | 283,022 | 1 | 1,022 | 374 | .. | 47 | .. | 14 | 234 | 4 | 1,696 |
| Deptford | 118,583 | .. | 374 | 195 | .. | 33 | 5 | 7 | 181 | 2 | 797 |
| Greenwich | 111,014 | .. | 390 | 163 | .. | 30 | 2 | 8 | 95 | 4 | 692 |
| Lewisham | 160,749 | 1 | 927 | 388 | .. | 18 | 1 | 4 | 105 | .. | 1 444 |
| Woolwich | 133,374 | .. | 1,027 | 267 | .. | 12 | .. | 9 | 101 | .. | 1,416 |
| Port of London | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | 10 |
*Including Membranous Croup.