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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 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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| Boroughs. | Estimated Population in the middle of 1912. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup). | Typhua Fever. | Typhoid Fever. | Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Plague. | Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. | Anthrax. | Glanders. | Hydrophobia. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Poliomyelitis. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Paddington | 142,362 | 269 | 254 | 15 | 11 | 117 | . | 7 | 31 | 6 | ||||||||
| Kensington | 171,746 | 304 | 180 | 2 | 8 | 116 | ••• | 1 | ||||||||||
| Hammersmith | 122,750 | 383 | 176 | 11 | 7 | 102 | 2 | 17 | ||||||||||
| Fulham | 155,402 | 485 | 233 | 26 | 30 | 115 | 2 | 1 | ... | 13 | 5 | |||||||
| Chelsea | 65,397 | 126 | 89 | 10 | 7 | 30 | 1 | |||||||||||
| City of Westminster | 157,248 | 238 | 160 | 17 | 19 | 92 | 3 | ... | 13 | 6 | ||||||||
| North. St. Marylebone | 116,155 | 259 | 149 | 11 | 5 | 89 | 1 | 19 | 3 | |||||||||
| Hampstead | 85,966 | 108 | 161 | 10 | 3 | 44 | 1 | 5 | 2 | |||||||||
| St. Pancras | 216,145 | 597 | 550 | 29 | 20 | 189 | 3 | 18 | 3 | |||||||||
| Islington | 326,398 | 811 | 517 | 49 | 16 | 186 | 13 | 32 | 11 | |||||||||
| Stoke Newington | 50,581 | 90 | 55 | 3 | 3 | 33 | 1 | ... | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
| Hackney | 222,986 | 515 | 252 | 27 | 27 | 210 | 7 | 22 | 8 | |||||||||
| Central. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Holborn | 48.026 | 114 | 89 | 12 | 47 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Finsbury | 86,130 | 157 | 144 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 144 | 1 | 7 | 3 | ||||||||
| City of London | 18,695 | 33 | 17 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| East. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Shoreditch | 110,430 | 153 | 139 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 148 | 5 | 20 | |||||||||
| Bethnal Green | 127,985 | 283 | 220 | 30 | 16 | 192 | 6 | 28 | ||||||||||
| Stepney | 277,315 | 929 | 363 | 56 | 1 | 31 | 342 | 11 | 48 | 12 | ||||||||
| Poplar | 161,597 | 1 | 314 | 253 | 36 | 20 | 198 | 6 | 35 | 5 | ||||||||
| South. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Southwark | 190,017 | 501 | 283 | 39 | 18 | 265 | 8 | 74 | 6 | |||||||||
| Bermondsey | 125,260 | ... | 419 | 218 | 1 | 37 | 19 | 164 | 4 | 44 | 7 | |||||||
| Lambeth. | 297,550 | 596 | 336 | 61 | 25 | 223 | 7 | 78 | 9 | |||||||||
| Battersea | 167,589 | 462 | 232 | 21 | 7 | 133 | 2 | ... | 28 | |||||||||
| Wandsworth | 321,881 | 812 | 428 | 69 | 2 | 29 | 207 | 3 | ... | 35 | 5 | |||||||
| Camberwell | 261,591 | 634 | 318 | 29 | 1 | 17 | 216 | 5 | ... | 30 | 11 | |||||||
| Deptford | 109,377 | 404 | 169 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 191 | 4 | ... | 27 | 4 | |||||||
| Greenwich | 95,994 | 439 | 254 | 11 | 5 | 98 | ... | 5 | 2 | |||||||||
| Lewisham | 165,249 | 457 | 436 | 26 | 7 | 103 | 1 | ... | 20 | 2 | ||||||||
| Woolwich | 121,932 | 3 | 472 | 424 | 20 | 3 | 90 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Port of London | *1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Administrative County of London | 4,519,754 | 5 | 11315 | 7101 | 3 | 704 | 7 | 381 | 4098 | ... | 105 | 1 | 700 | 132 |
* This was subsequently found not to be Small-pox.
SECONDARY NOTIFICATIONS.
The secondary notification of infectious diseases has grown to considerable
proportions. A Daily List of Notifications is sent to :
1. The Metropolitan Asylums Hoard.
2. The St. Pancras Public Library.
13. The Day Schools attended by infected children.
4. The Day Schools attended by contacts.
5. The Sunday Schools attended by infected children.
6. The Sunday Schools attended by contacts.
7. Certain workplaces attended by contacts.