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 1913
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1913
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| Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population in the middle of 1913. | 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. | ||
| West Districts. | |||||||||||||
| Fulham | 157,117 | - | 766 | 270 | - | 34 | - | 19 | 121 | 5 | 2 | 1217 | 7.6 |
| Paddington | 142,210 | - | 487 | 304 | 25 | - | 8 | 112 | - | 2 | 938 | 6.5 | |
| Kensington | 171,284 | - | 558 | 145 | -_ | 28 | -_ | 13 | 112 | 3 | 4 | 863 | 5.0 |
| Hammersmith | 123,745 | 537 | 138 | -_ | 13 | - | 8 | 101 | - | 1 | 798 | 6.3 | |
| Chelsea | 64,598 | -_ | 206 | 61 | -_ | 7 | -_ | 8 | 35 | -_ | 3 | 320 | 4.9 |
| City of Westminster | 154,810 | — | 379 | 192 | — | 29 | — | 6 | 75 | — | 4 | 685 | 4.4 |
| North Districts. | |||||||||||||
| St. Marylebone | 114,532 | 1 | 417 | 130 | - | 19 | - | 4 | 78 | 3 | 1 | 653 | 5.6 |
| Hampstead | 86,346 | - | 208 | 128 | - | 15 | - | 1 | 33 | - | 4 | 389 | 4.4 |
| St. Pancras | 214,830 | - | 565 | 438 | - | 41 | 1 | 11 | 215 | 5 | 9 | 1285 | 5.9 |
| Islington | 325,585 | -_ | 1315 | 551 | - | 50 | - | 28 | 228 | 8 | 19 | 2199 | 6.6 |
| Stoke Newington | 50,518 | - | 109 | 84 | - | 9 | -_ | 2 | 35 | 1 | 5 | 245 | 4.8 |
| Hackney | 223,353 | — | 821 | 331 | — | 39 | 1 | 19 | 184 | 8 | 15 | 1418 | 9.2 |
| Central Districts. | |||||||||||||
| Holborn | 46,949 | - | 132 | 60 | - | 7 | - | 1 | 29 | - | 2 | 231 | 4.8 |
| Finsbury | 81,679 | - | 274 | 107 | - | 15 | - | 14 | 125 | 5 | 3 | 543 | 6.6 |
| City of London | 17,916 | — | 47 | 30 | — | 6 | — | - | 8 | - | 2 | 93 | 5.1 |
| East Districts. | |||||||||||||
| Shoreditch | 109,654 | - | 354 | 185 | - | 15 | 1 | 9 | 159 | 4 | 8 | 735 | 6.6 |
| Bethnal Green | 127,824 | - | 411 | 223 | - | 23 | - | 13 | 265 | 1 | 3 | 939 | 7.2 |
| Stepney | 275,300 | - | 820 | 471 | 2 | 68 | 1 | 34 | 364 | 10 | 14 | 1784 | 6.4 |
| Poplar | 160,913 | 2 | 754 | 345 | - | 40 | 1 | 26 | 173 | 5 | 3 | 1349 | 8.2 |
| South Districts. | |||||||||||||
| Southwark | 188,487 | 1 | 880 | 327 | 1 | 39 | 2 | 15 | 260 | 6 | - | 1531 | 8.0 |
| Bermondsey | 124,739 | -_ | 731 | 243 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 14 | 130 | 3 | 3 | 1153 | 9.1 |
| Lambeth | 297,139 | -_ | 1397 | 408 | - | 39 | 2 | 25 | 219 | 7 | 8 | 2105 | 7.0 |
| Battersea | 167,464 | — | 949 | 288 | - | 20 | 2 | 10 | 123 | 3 | 5 | 1400 | 8.2 |
| Wandsworth | 330,395 | - | 1007 | 447 | - | 52 | 2 | 32 | 206 | 9 | 14 | 1769 | 5.3 |
| Camberwell | 261,805 | - | 1155 | 403 | - | 23 | 1 | 12 | 257 | 6 | 5 | 1862 | 7.0 |
| Deptford | 109,280 | - | 625 | 245 | - | 1 7 | - | 1 | 232 | - | - | 11 20 | 10.1 |
| Greenwich | 96,015 | - | 330 | 267 | - | 8 | - | 5 | 112 | - | - | 722 | 7.4 |
| Lewisham | 168,822 | — | 670 | 431 | — | 34 | - | 3 | 84 | — | 5 | 1227 | 7.2 |
| Woolwich | 122,382 | — | 645 | 402 | — | 14 | — | 8 | 74 | — | 1 | 1142 | 9.2 |
| Port of London | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 5 | - |
| County of London | 4,518,191 | 3 | 17,567 | 7665 | - | 762 | 15 | 354 | 4139 | 92 | 143 | 30,763 | 6.8 |