London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Fulham 1912
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1912
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TABLE D.
| Cities and Boroughs, | Estimated population in the middle of 1912. | Notified Cases of Infectious Disease. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox. | 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. | ||
| Fulham | 155,402 | - | 484 | 231 | - | 26 | - | 30 | 115 | 2 | 5 | 893 | 5.7 |
| Paddington | 149 ,362 | -_ | 269 | 254 | - | 15 | - | 11 | 117 | 7 | 6 | 679 | 4.8 |
| Kensington | 171,746 | -_ | 304 | 180 | - | 15 | 2 | 8 | 116 | - | 1 | 626 | 3.7 |
| Hammersmith | 122,750 | -_ | 333 | 176 | -_ | 11 | - | 7 | 102 | 2 | 2 | 633 | 5.2 |
| Chelsea | 65,397 | — | 126 | 89 | -_ | 10 | _ | 7 | 30 | - | 1 | 263 | 4.0 |
| City of Westminster | 157,248 | — | 238 | 160 | — | 17 | — | 19 | 92 | 3 | 6 | 535 | 3.4 |
| St. Marylebone | 116,155 | - | 259 | 149 | - | 11 | - | 5 | 89 | 1 | 3 | 517 | 4.5 |
| Hampstcad | 85,966 | -_ | 107 | 161 | -_ | 10 | -_ | 3 | 44 | 1 | 2 | 328 | 3.8 |
| St. Pancras | 216,145 | -_ | 597 | 550 | -_ | 29 | -_ | 20 | 189 | 3 | 3 | 1391 | 6.5 |
| Islington | 326,398 | -_ | 811 | 517 | -_ | 49 | -_ | 16 | 186 | 13 | 11 | 1603 | 4 .9 |
| Stoke Newington | 50,581 | - | 90 | 55 | - | 3 | -_ | 3 | 33 | 1 | 5 | 190 | 3.8 |
| Hackney | 222,986 | — | 515 | 252 | — | 27 | — | 27 | 210 | 7 | 8 | 1046 | 4.7 |
| Holborn | 49,026 | - | 114 | 89 | - | 12 | - | - | 47 | 1 | - | 263 | 5.5 |
| Finsbury | 86,130 | -_ | 157 | 144 | 1 | 8 | - | 12 | 144 | 1 | 3 | 470 | 5.5 |
| City of London | 18,695 | — | 33 | 17 | - | 2 | — | - | 14 | 1 | 1 | 68 | 3.6 |
| Shoreditch | 110,430 | — | 153 | 139 | 1 | 14 | _ | 8 | 148 | 5 | _ | 468 | 4.3 |
| Bethnal Green | 127,985 | — | 283 | 220 | — | 30 | _ | 16 | 192 | 6 | 7 | 754 | 5.9 |
| Stepney | 277,315 | - | 929 | 363 | _ | 56 | 1 | 31 | 342 | 11 | 12 | 1745 | 6.3 |
| Poplar | 161,597 | 1 | 314 | 253 | — | 36 | - | 20 | 198 | 6 | 5 | 833 | 5.2 |
| Southwark | 190,017 | - | 500 | 283 | - | 39 | - | 18 | 265 | 8 | 6 | 1119 | 5.9 |
| Bermondsey | 125,260 | -_ | 418 | 218 | 1 | 37 | - | 19 | 164 | 4 | 7 | 868 | 6.9 |
| Lambeth | 297,550 | — | 596 | 336 | — | 61 | — | 24 | 223 | 7 | 9 | 1256 | 4.2 |
| Battersea | 167,589 | — | 462 | 232 | — | 21 | — | 7 | 133 | 2 | 2 | 859 | 5.1 |
| Wandsworth | 321,881 | _ | 812 | 428 | _ | 69 | 2 | 29 | 207 | 3 | 5 | 1555 | 4 .8 |
| Camberwell | 261,591 | _ | 634 | 318 | - | 29 | 1 | 17 | 216 | 5 | 1 1 | 1231 | 4.7 |
| Deptford | 109,377 | — | 404 | 169 | _ | 9 | 1 | 8 | 191 | 4 | 4 | 790 | 7.2 |
| Greenwich | 95,994 | — | 439 | 254 | — | 11 | _ | 5 | 98 | _ | 2 | 809 | 8.5 |
| Lewish 1m | 165,249 | _ | 457 | 436 | _ | 26 | _ | 7 | 103 | 1 | 2 | 1032 | 6.3 |
| Woolwich | 121,932 | 3 | 472 | 424 | — | 20 | — | 3 | 90 | — | 3 | 1015 | |
| Port of London | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | |
| County of London | 4,519,754 | 4 | 11,311 | 7099 | 3 | 704 | 7 | 380 | 4098 | 105 | 132 | 23,843 | 5.3 |