Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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In the following table is shown the number of cases of infectious diseases notified luring 1913 in the several Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs, and in the County of London: —
Boroughs. | Estimated Population in the middle of 1913. | Total Cases. | Enteric Fever. | Typhus. | Continued Fever. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup). | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Cerebro-Spinal Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Anthrax. | Glanders. . | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Poliomyelitis. |
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West. Paddington | 142,210 | 960 | 25 | ... | ... | ... | 487 | 304 | ... | 112 | ... | 8 | ... | ... | 22 17 | 2 4 |
Kensington | 171,284 | 880 | 28 | ... | ... | ... | 558 | 145 | ... | 112 | 3 | 13 | ... | ... | 23 | 1 |
Hammersmith | 123,745 | 821 | 13 | .. | ... | ... | 537 | 138 | ... | 101 | ... | 19 | 2 | ... | 20 | 2 |
Fulham | 157,117 | 1,238 | 34 | ... | ... | ... | 767 | 270 | ... | 121 | 5 | 8 | 1 | ... | 3 | 3 |
Chelsea | 64,598 | 323 | 7 | ... | ... | ... | 206 | 61 | ... | 35 | ... | ... | ... | |||
City of Westminster | 154,810 | 701 | 29 | ... | ... | ... | 379 | 192 | ... | 75 | ... | 6 | ... | ... | 16 | 4 |
North. | ... | 78 | 3 | 4 | ... | ... | 9 | 1 | ||||||||
St. Marylebone | 114,532 | 662 | 19 | ... | ... | 1 | 417 | 130 | ... | 33 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 11 | 4 |
Hampstead | 86,346 | 400 | 15 | ... | ... | ... | 208 | 128 | ... | 215 | 5 | 11 | ... | ... | 24 | 9 |
St. Pancras | 214,330 | 1,309 | 41 | ... | 1 | ... | 565 | 438 | ... | 228 | 8 | 28 | ... | ... | 40 | 19 |
Islington | 325,584 | 50 | ... | ... | ... | 1,315 | 551 | ... | 35 | 1 | 2 | ... | ... | 1 | 5 | |
Stoke Newington | 50,518 | 9 | ... | ... | ... | 109 | 84 | ... | 184 | 8 | 19 | ... | ... | 31 | 15 | |
Hackney | 223,353 | 1,419 | 39 | ... | 1 | ... | 821 | 331 | ... | 29 | . | ... | ... | 3 | 2 | |
Central. Holborn | 46,949 | 234 | 7 | ... | ... | ... | 60 | ... | 125 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 6 | 3 | |
Finsbury.. | 84,679 | 5 49 | 15 | ... | 1 | ... | 107 | ... | 8 | 5 | 14 | ... | ... | 1 | 3 | |
City of London ... | 17,916 | 94 | 6 | ... | ... | .. | 274 | ... | 153 | ... | 9 | ... | ... | 22 | 8 | |
East. Shoreditch | 109.654 | 757 | 15 | ... | 1 | 47 | 185 | ... | 265 | 4 | 13 | ... | ... | 19 | 5 | |
Bethnal Green . | 127,824 | 958 | 23 | ... | 354 | 223 | ... | 364 | 1 | 34 | 2 | ... | 24 | 14 | ||
Stepney | 275,300 | 1,810 | 68 | 2 | l | 411 | 471 | ... | 173 | 10 | 26 | 1 | ... | 47 | 3 | |
Poplar | 160,913 | 1,397 | 10 | ... | 1 | 2 | 754 | 315 | ... | 5 | ... | ... | ... | |||
South. Southwark | 188,487 | 1,586 | 39 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 880 | 327 | ... | 260 130 | 15 14 | ... | ... | 55 24 | 3 | |
Bermondsey | 124,739 | 1,171 | 27 | i | 1 9 | 731 | 243 | ... | 219 | 6 | 25 | ... | ... | 65 | 8 | |
Lambeth. | 297,139 | 2 170 | 39 | ... | 9 | 1,397 | 408 | ... | 123 | 3 | 10 | ... | ... | 31 | 5 | |
Battersea | 167,461 | 1,431 | 20 | ... | 2 | 949 | 288 | ... | 206 | 9 | 32 | ... | ... | 37 | 14 | |
Wandsworth | 330,395 | 1,800 | 52 | ... | ... | 1,007 | 447 | ... | 257 | 6 | 12 | 1 | ... | 30 | 5 | |
Camberwell | 261,805 | 1,893 | 23 | ... | 1 | 1,155 | 403 | ... | 232 | 1 | ... | ... | 19 | |||
Deptford | 109,280 | 1,140 | 17 | ... | 625 | 267 | ... | 112 | 5 | ... | ... | 17 | ||||
Greenwich | 96,015 | 739 | 8 | ... | 330 | 451 | ... | 84 | ... | ... | 11 | 5 | ||||
Lewisham | 168,822 | 1,238 | 34 | ... | 402 | ... | 72 | 3 | ... | ... | 13 | 1 | ||||
Woolwich | 122,382 | 1,155 | 14 | ... | ... | ... | 645 | ... | 8 | ... | ... | |||||
Port of London | ? | 5 | 2 | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ||||||
Administrative County of London | 4,518,191 | 31,367 (758 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 17,552 | 7,654 | ... | 4148 | 92 | 349 | 4 | 1 | 641 | 145 |