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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
Kensington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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Cases of Infectious Disease notified in the several Metropolitan Boroughs in the Fifty-two Weeks ended Saturday, 28th December, 1907.
| Name of Borough. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. __ | Typhus Fever. | Other Continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Membranous Croup. | Cholera. | Totals. | Population. 1901. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 522 | 225 | 3 | 2 | 127 | |||||||||
| Paddington | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Hammersmith | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Fulham | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Chelsea | |||||||||||||
| City of Westminster | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 'St. Marylebone | |||||||||||||
| Hampstead | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| St. Pancras | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Islington | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Stoke Newington | |||||||||||||
| Hackney | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Holborn | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Finsbury | |||||||||||||
| City of London | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Shoreditch | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Bethnal Green | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Stepney | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Poplar | 1 | ||||||||||||
| South wark | |||||||||||||
| Bermondsey | |||||||||||||
| Lambeth. | |||||||||||||
| Battersea | |||||||||||||
| Wandsworth | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Camberwell | |||||||||||||
| Deptford | |||||||||||||
| Greenwich | |||||||||||||
| Lewisham | |||||||||||||
| Woolwich | |||||||||||||
| Port of London | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Grand Totals | 4 | * | |||||||||||
* In addition, 135 cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever were notified, viz.: —13 at Lambeth; 11 each at Islington and
Poplar ; 10 each at Battersea, Southwark, and Stepney ; 8 at Bethnal Green ; 7 each at Bermondsey and Shoreaitch ;
6 at St. Pancras; 4 each at Chelsea, Hackney, Hammersmith, St. Marylebone, and Westminster; 3 each at Camberwell,
Finsbury, and Fulham ; 2 each at Deptford. Holborn, Kensington, and Wandsworth ; and 1 each at Greenwich,
Lewisham, Stoke Newington, and Woolwich.