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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
St Pancras 1902
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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The three Tables below show the Small-pox Cases and Deaths in the
Metropolitan Boroughs and the Fatality:—
| BOROUGHS. | Estimated Population in the middle of 1902. | 1901. | 1902. | Total. | Rate per 10,000 Population, | Order of Morbidity. | 1902. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd quarter | 3rd quarter | 4th quarter | 1st quarter | 2nd quarter | 3rd quarter | 4th quarter | |||||
| West— | |||||||||||
| Paddington | 145107 | ... | 4 | 17 | 62 | 45 | 6 | 131 | 9.2 | 7 | ... |
| Kensington | 177605 | ... | 4 | 11 | 43 | 47 | 9 | 114 | 6.4 | 3 | ... |
| Hammersmith | 114210 | ... | 4 | 41 | 61 | 27 | 8 | 141 | 12.3 | 11 | 4 |
| Fulham | 143102 | ... | ... | 12 | 54 | 31 | 6 | 103 | 7.2 | 5 | 3 |
| Chelsea | 74018 | ... | 2 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 1 | 44 | 5.9 | 2 | ... |
| City of Westminster | 180800 | ... | 9 | 91 | 174 | 56 | 2 | 332 | 18.4 | 17 | ... |
| North— | |||||||||||
| St. Marylebone | 132069 | 2 | 41 | 36 | 112 | 39 | 3 | 233 | 17.6 | 16 | 1 |
| Hampstead | 83743 | ... | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 26 | 3.1 | 1 | ... |
| St. Pancras | 235596 | 1 | 101 | 153 | 226 | 118 | 16 | 615 | 26.1 | 22 | ... |
| Islington | 337268 | l | 13 | 48 | 137 | 136 | 16 | 351 | 10.4 | 8 | 8 |
| Stoke Newington | 51700 | ... | 7 | 12 | 38 | 16 | 2 | 75 | 14.5 | 14 | ... |
| Hackney | 221926 | 1 | 18 | 22 | 196 | 219 | 3 | 459 | 20.7 | 19 | 5 |
| Central— | |||||||||||
| Holborn | 58535 | ... | 19 | 198 | 186 | 29 | 3 | 435 | 74.3 | 29 | 1 |
| Finsbury | 100487 | ... | 14 | 79 | 131 | 31 | 46 | 301 | 30.0 | 24 | 3 |
| City of London | 25598 | ... | 2 | 6 | 19 | 11 | 9 | 47 | 18.8 | 18 | ... |
| East— | |||||||||||
| Shoreditch | 117980 | ... | 2 | 16 | 313 | 118 | 7 | 456 | 38.9 | 25 | 4 |
| Bethnal Green | 129889 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 276 | 199 | 39 | 547 | 42.1 | 27 | 1 |
| Stepney | 300551 | 1 | 4 | 155 | 928 | 417 | 38 | 1543 | 51.4 | 28 | 3 |
| Poplar | 169214 | ... | 2 | 68 | 331 | 283 | 15 | 699 | 41.3 | 26 | 1 |
| South— | |||||||||||
| Southwark | 206825 | ... | 7 | 82 | 250 | 260 | 7 | 606 | 29.3 | 23 | ... |
| Bermondsey | 130218 | ... | ... | 107 | 101 | 107 | 15 | 330 | 25.-3 | 21 | 1 |
| Lambeth | 305102 | ... | 4 | 47 | 189 | 151 | 22 | 413 | 13.6 | 12 | ... |
| Battersea | 171401 | ... | ... | 53 | 99 | 66 | 23 | 241 | 14.0 | 13 | 1 |
| Wandsworth | 241810 | ... | 8 | 23 | 70 | 53 | 7 | 161 | 6.6 | 4 | ... |
| Camberwell | 262775 | ... | ... | 54 | 147 | 190 | 17 | 408 | 15.5 | 15 | 2 |
| Deptford | 111577 | ... | ... | 4 | 71 | 62 | 10 | 147 | 11.2 | 9 | 1 |
| Greenwich | 98013 | ... | ... | 11 | 58 | 34 | 9 | 112 | 11.4 | 10 | 1 |
| Lewisham | 132432 | ... | 2 | 10 | 50 | 33 | 5 | 100 | 7.5 | 6 | ... |
| Woolwich | 119556 | ... | 1 | 22 | 111 | 116 | 7 | 257 | 21.5 | 20 | 2 |
| Port of London | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 15 | ... | ... | ... |
| Total | 4579107 | 7 | 274 | 1414 | 4172 | 2926 | 352 | 9445 | 20.6 | ... | 42 |
There were also 7 cases in the earlier part of the 1st Quarter of 1901.