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 1914
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TABLE B.
Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population in the middle of 1914. | Notified Cases of Infectious Disease. | |||||||||||
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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 | 157,303 | - | 1042 | 272 | - | 40 | 1 | 33 | 152 | 1 | - | 1541 | 9.8 |
Paddington | 142,055 | - | 743 | 295 | - | 10 | 2 | 10 | 140 | 1 | 3 | 1204 | 8.5 |
Kensington | 170,817 | - | 962 | 200 | - | 11 | 2 | 6 | 165 | 2 | - | 1348 | 7.9 |
Hammersmith | 124,750 | - | 977 | 179 | - | 14 | - | 7 | 102 | 2 | 1 | 1282 | 10.4 |
Chelsea | 63,791 | - | 272 | 74 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 8 | 34 | 1 | - | 414 | 6.4 |
City of Westminster | 152,346 | 1 | 844 | 186 | - | 49 | 2 | 10 | 111 | 1 | 1 | 1204 | 7.8 |
St. Marylebone | 112,892 | - | 434 | 235 | - | 37 | - | 9 | 67 | 1 | - | 783 | 6.9 |
Hampstead | 86,731 | - | 281 | 231 | - | 17 | - | 7 | 45 | - | 3 | 584 | 6.8 |
St. Pancras | 212,497 | - | 1207 | 451 | - | 44 | 1 | 18 | 224 | 3 | 3 | 1951 | 9.1 |
Islington | 324,764 | - | 1851 | 661 | - | 75 | - | 25 | 335 | 7 | 8 | 2962 | 9.1 |
Stoke Newington | 50,454 | - | 264 | 98 | - | 4 | - | 3 | 49 | - | - | 418 | 8.3 |
Hackney | 223,724 | - | 806 | 495 | - | 28 | 3 | 17 | 296 | 3 | 5 | 1653 | 7.4 |
Holbora | 45,861 | - | 171 | 64 | - | 15 | - | 4 | 22 | - | - | 276 | 5.9 |
Finsbury | 83,212 | - | 449 | 145 | - | 19 | - | 11 | 157 | 3 | 1 | 785 | 9.3 |
City of London | 17,129 | 1 | 85 | 31 | - | 5 | - | - | 10 | - | - | 131 | 7.4 |
Shoreditch | 108,869 | - | 424 | 221 | - | 19 | 1 | 13 | 198 | 3 | 1 | 880 | 8.1 |
Bethnal Green | 127,662 | - | 654 | 376 | - | 18 | - | 9 | 305 | 2 | 7 | 1371 | 10.8 |
Stepney | 273,265 | - | 2089 | 885 | - | 47 | - | 33 | 403 | 4 | 27 | 3488 | 12.7 |
Poplar | 160,222 | - | 633 | 353 | - | 34 | - | 23 | 222 | 9 | 8 | 1312 | 8.2 |
Southwark | 186,941 | - | 1447 | 340 | - | 24 | - | 29 | 325 | 6 | 4 | 2175 | 11.6 |
Bermondsey | 124,213 | - | 581 | 216 | - | 8 | - | 5 | 123 | 5 | 1 | 939 | 7.6 |
Lambeth | 296,724 | - | 1754 | 560 | - | 50 | 3 | 23 | 5 | 10 | 2642 | 8.9 | |
Battersea | 167,338 | - | 996 | 267 | - | 21 | - | 13 | 156 | 1 | 1 | 1455 | 8.7 |
Wandsworth | 338,998 | - | 1410 | 537 | - | 47 | - | 31 | 238 | 3 | 2 | 2268 | 6.9 |
Camberwell | 262,020 | - | 1541 | 458 | - | 29 | 1 | 24 | 270 | 4 | 5 | 2332 | 8.9 |
Deptford | 109,182 | - | 863 | 252 | - | 9 | - | 5 | 229 | - | 1 | 1359 | 12.5 |
Greenwich | 96,037 | - | 552 | 243 | - | 10 | 1 | 3 | 123 | 4 | - | 936 | 9.8 |
Lewishim | 172,433 | - | 955 | 406 | - | 51 | - | 7 | 129 | - | 1 | 1549 | 9.2 |
Woolwich | 122,836 | - | 693 | 387 | - | 15 | - | 7 | 101 | 1 | - | 1204 | 9.9 |
Port of London | - | - | 4 | 1 | - | 6 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 14 | - |
County of London | 4,516,612 | 2 | 25,014 | 9119 | 1 | 779 | 18 | 393 | 4970 | 73 | 93 | 40.460 | 9.0 |