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 for the year 1911
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TABLE D.
Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population in the middle of 1911. | Notified Cases of Infectious Disease. | |||||||||||
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Small-pox. | J Scarlet fever. | Diphtheria. | Typhus fever. | Enteric fever. | Other continned fevers. | Puerperal fever. | Erysipelas. | Cerebro-spinal meningitis. | Poliomyelitis. | Total. | Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | ||
LONDON | 4,522,628 | 6 | 10,489 | 7389 | 1 | 1025 | 23 | 303 | 4845 | 101 | 69 | 24,311 | 5.4 |
Fulham | 153,284 | - | 382 | 313 | - | 38 | 3 | 23 | 115 | 3 | 1 | 875 | 5.7 |
Paddington | 142,541 | — | 227 | 169 | — | 37 | 1 | 7 | 117 | 2 | 1 | 561 | 3.9 |
Kensington | 172,296 | — | 232 | 219 | — | 23 | — | 7 | 125 | 1 | 1 | 608 | 3.5 |
Hammersmith | 121,837 | — | 239 | 196 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 3 | 100 | 1 | 1 | 569 | 4.7 |
Chelsea | 66,218 | — | 143 | 83 | — | 7 | — | 5 | 52 | — | 1 | 291 | 4.4 |
City of Westminster | 159,709 | 1 | 253 | 145 | — | 30 | 1 | 6 | 82 | 3 | 1 | 522 | 3.3 |
St. Marylebone | 117,844 | - | 329 | 135 | - | 18 | - | 4 | 109 | 2 | 1 | 598 | 5.1 |
Hampstead | 85,599 | - | 129 | 151 | — | 14 | — | 6 | 50 | — | 5 | 355 | 4.2 |
St. Pancras | 218,031 | — | 443 | 422 | — | 69 | — | 17 | 199 | 7 | 2 | 1159 | 5.3 |
Islington | 327,234 | — | 805 | 594 | — | 73 | — | 14 | 276 | 13 | 1 | 1776 | 5.4 |
Stoke Ncwington. | 50,669 | — | 99 | 79 | — | 6 | — | — | 42 | — | — | 226 | 4.5 |
Hackney | 222,674 | 3 | 613 | 316 | — | 48 | — | 16 | 364 | 7 | 4 | 1371 | 6.2 |
Holborn | 49,084 | - | 120 | 85 | - | 11 | - | 2 | 37 | - | - | 255 | 5.2 |
Finsbury | 87,639 | — | 179 | 178 | — | 80 | — | 4 | 223 | 2 | — | 666 | 7.6 |
City of London | 19,475 | - | 23 | 23 | - | 8 | - | 1 | 14 | - | - | 69 | 3.6 |
Shoreditch | 111,284 | 3 | 240 | 175 | — | 22 | — | 5 | 160 | 4 | 3 | 612 | 5.5 |
Bethnal Green | 128,247 | 3 | 243 | 201 | — | 31 | 1 | 14 | 248 | 6 | 1 | 748 | 5.8 |
Stepney | 279.560 | 39 | 467 | 517 | — | 80 | — | 30 | 488 | 7 | 5 | 1633 | 5.9 |
Poplar | 162,290 | 11 | 376 | 284 | 63 | 3 | 11 | 205 | 6 | 5 | 964 | 6.0 | |
Southwark | 191,595 | - | 480 | 293 | - | 45 | 2 | 14 | 316 | 5 | 3 | 1158 | 6.1 |
Bermondsey | 125,840 | - | 302 | 254 | - | 26 | - | 13 | 152 | 2 | 3 | 752 | 6.0 |
Lambeth | 298,032 | — | 764 | 405 | — | 61 | — | 21 | 246 | 9 | 9 | 1515 | 5.1 |
Battersea | 167,765 | - | 354 | 223 | - | 32 | - | 9 | 162 | 11 | 4 | 795 | 4.8 |
Wandsworth | 313,389 | - | 866 | 513 | - | 58 | 5 | 24 | 204 | 5 | 5 | 1680 | 5.4 |
Camberwell | 261,407 | 1 | 634 | 352 | — | 33 | 2 | 10 | 254 | 2 | 5 | 1293 | 5.0 |
Deptford | 109,475 | 1 | 375 | 165 | — | 13 | 4 | 2 | 180 | — | 1 | 741 | 6.8 |
Greenwich | 95,982 | — | 307 | 318 | — | 10 | — | 9 | 133 | 1 | — | 778 | 8.1 |
Lewishim | 161,677 | - | 349 | 343 | - | 36 | - | 11 | 105 | 1 | 3 | 848 | 5.3 |
Woolwich | 121,509 | — | 514 | 237 | — | 18 | — | 15 | 81 | 1 | 3 | 869 | 7.2 |
Port of London | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 8 | — | - | 6 | — | — | 18 | — |