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City of Westminster 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Table XVI.—
| Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population in the middle of 1909. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other Continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Cerebro-spinal Meningitis. | Total. | Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| County of London | 4,833,938 | 21 | 17,251 | 6,685 | 7 | 1,042 | 20 | 287 | 4,194 | 1ll | 29,618 | 6.1 |
| Paddington | 151,955 | — | 630 | 184 | - | 29 | — | 3 | 106 | 4 | 956 | 6.3 |
| Kensington | 183,683 | — | 420 | 177 | — | 48 | — | 7 | 135 | 4 | 791 | 4.3 |
| Hammersmith | 125,704 | — | 389 | 192 | -_ | 16 | — | 14 | 76 | 1 | 688 | 5.5 |
| Fulham | 176,406 | — | 511 | 322 | -_ | 41 | 1 | 34 | 115 | 3 | 1,027 | 5.8 |
| Chelsea | 75,249 | — | 307 | 98 | -_ | 12 | 2 | 1 | 40 | — | 460 | 6.1 |
| City of Westminster | 172,150 | 1 | 590 | 225 | — | 25 | — | 5 | 102 | 3 | 951 | 5.5 |
| St. Marylebone | 126,027 | - | 458 | 113 | -_ | 21 | — | 3 | 134 | 6 | 735 | 5.8 |
| Hampstead | 94,185 | — | 259 | 47 | — | 16 | — | 5 | 30 | 4 | 361 | 3.8 |
| St. Pancras | 237,422 | 1 | 771 | 320 | — | 50 | — | 15 | 155 | 6 | 1,318 | 5.6 |
| Islington | 351,202 | 3 | 1,284 | 432 | 1 | 94 | — | 14 | 221 | 11 | 2,060 | 5.9 |
| Stoke Newington | 54,423 | — | 110 | 28 | -_ | 11 | — | 4 | 27 | — | 180 | 3.3 |
| Hackney | 237,601 | 1 | 784 | 264 | — | 59 | 1 | 15 | 271 | 6 | 1,401 | 5.9 |
| Holborn | 53,802 | 1 | 97 | 47 | -_ | 16 | 1 | 3 | 41 | — | 206 | 3.8 |
| Finsbury | 95,289 | — | 240 | 167 | 1 | 13 | — | 5 | 132 | 3 | 561 | 5.9 |
| City of London | 18,193 | 1 | 38 | 19 | — | 4 | - | 1 | 10 | — | 73 | 4.0 |
| Shoreditch | 114,802 | -_ | 341 | 186 | -_ | 50 | -_ | 14 | 144 | 2 | 737 | 6.4 |
| Bethnal Green | 131,316 | 1 | 566 | 184 | -_ | 33 | — | 7 | 164 | 5 | 960 | 7.3 |
| Stepney | 312,525 | 8 | 1,038 | 583 | 2 | 71 | 2 | 13 | 487 | 4 | 2,208 | 7.1 |
| Poplar | 171,965 | — | 733 | 213 | — | 54 | — | 13 | 177 | 8 | 1,198 | 7.0 |
| Southwark | 211,125 | 2 | 590 | 256 | -_ | 35 | 1 | 6 | 224 | 5 | 1,119 | 5.3 |
| Bermondsey | 127,569 | — | 458 | 198 | 3 | 30 | — | 7 | 143 | 4 | 843 | 6.6 |
| Lambeth | 324.188 | — | 1,182 | 378 | — | 50 | 1 | 16 | 191 | 14 | 1,832 | 5.7 |
| Battersea | 186,036 | — | 723 | 288 | _ | 54 | — | 14 | 156 | 4 | 1,239 | 6.7 |
| Wandsworth | 297,646 | — | 997 | 371 | _ | 66 | 2 | 26 | 193 | 4 | 1,659 | 5.6 |
| Camber well | 283,022 | 1 | 1,017 | 379 | — | 47 | — | 14 | 234 | 4 | 1,696 | 6.0 |
| Deptford | 118,583 | — | 374 | 195 | — | 33 | 6 | 7 | 181 | 2 | 798 | 6.7 |
| Greenwich | 111,014 | — | 390 | 163 | — | 30 | 1 | 8 | 95 | 4 | 691 | 6.2 |
| Lewisham | 160,749 | 1 | 927 | 388 | -_ | 18 | 1 | 4 | 105 | — | 1,444 | 9.0 |
| Woolwich | 133,374 | — | 1,027 | 267 | — | 12 | _ | 9 | 101 | — | 1,416 | 10.6 |
| Port of London | - | — | — | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | - | 4 | - | 10 | - |
Tuberculosis.
Compulsory Notification of Poor Law Cases.—The Local Government
Board having had under consideration the desirability of affording
facilities for the extension of administrative action for the prevention
of tuberculosis, issued an Order in pursuance of Section 130 of the
Public Health Act, 1875, as amended and extended by the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Public Health Act, 1896, to
provide for the notification to the Medical Officer of Health of Sanitary
Authorities of cases of the infectious disease known as pulmonary tuberculosis
occurring amongst the inmates of Poor Law Institutions, or