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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
London County Council 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Number of notifications of infectious disease in the County of London during the 52 weeks ended 28th December, 1929.
| Metropolitan boroughs. (Arranged in topographical order.) | Anthrax. | Cerebrospinal fever. | Continued fever. | Diphtheria (including membranous group.) | Dysentery. | Encephalitis lethargica. | Enteric fever. | Erysipelas. | Malaria. | Ophthalmia neonatorum. | Pneumonia. | Polioencephalitis. | Poliomyelitis. | Puerperal fever. | Puerperal pyrexia. | Scarlet fever. | Smallpox. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paddington | – | 6 | 3 | 319 | – | 5 | 18 | 68 | – | 9 | 380 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 42 | 327 | 3 |
| Kensington | – | 2 | – | 323 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 75 | 2 | 22 | 261 | – | 1 | 13 | 41 | 529 | 5 |
| Hammersmith | – | 3 | – | 247 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 72 | – | 13 | 230 | – | – | 11 | 15 | 391 | 3 |
| Fulham | – | 5 | – | 366 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 78 | – | 31 | 345 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 51 | 481 | – |
| Chelsea | – | 1 | – | 140 | 1 | – | 2 | 35 | 4 | 5 | 194 | – | 1 | – | 6 | 149 | – |
| Westminster, City of | – | 2 | 1 | 168 | 7 | – | 8 | 48 | – | 11 | 49 | – | 1 | 10 | 12 | 213 | 2 |
| St. Marylebone | – | 3 | – | 167 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 40 | 2 | 3 | 91 | – | 2 | 3 | 20 | 230 | 3 |
| Hampstead | – | 2 | – | 66 | 3 | – | 5 | 21 | – | 8 | 130 | – | 2 | 2 | 21 | 143 | – |
| St. Pancras | – | 4 | – | 373 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 110 | 1 | 37 | 466 | – | 2 | 23 | 71 | 672 | 87 |
| Islington | – | 6 | 1 | 1,003 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 149 | 2 | 69 | 518 | – | 4 | 37 | 82 | 1,153 | 70 |
| Stoke Newington | – | – | – | 134 | – | – | 5 | 20 | – | 16 | 28 | – | 1 | 5 | 5 | 130 | 11 |
| Hackney | – | 3 | – | 670 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 64 | 5 | 37 | 110 | – | 2 | 11 | 49 | 856 | 58 |
| Holborn | – | – | – | 70 | 4 | – | 5 | 23 | 1 | 5 | 89 | – | – | 2 | 5 | 128 | 43 |
| Finsbury | – | 1 | – | 226 | – | 2 | 6 | 52 | – | 30 | 153 | – | 2 | 3 | 16 | 286 | 32 |
| London, City of (b) | – | – | – | 21 | 1 | – | – | 3 | – | – | 11 | – | – | – | – | 34 | 3 |
| Shoreditch | – | 6 | – | 350 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 54 | – | 26 | 179 | – | 2 | 5 | 17 | 355 | 246 |
| Bethnal Green | – | 1 | 1 | 346 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 86 | 1 | 23 | 275 | – | – | 13 | 10 | 566 | 262 |
| Stepney | – | 8 | – | 700 | – | – | 13 | 173 | 2 | 38 | 602 | – | 3 | 13 | 16 | 1,167 | 489 |
| Poplar | 1 | 5 | – | 569 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 84 | – | 57 | 734 | – | 1 | 11 | 13 | 810 | 158 |
| Southwark | 1 | 11 | – | 605 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 107 | 3 | 28 | 486 | – | 5 | 14 | 39 | 662 | 153 |
| Bermondsey | 1 | 4 | – | 463 | – | 1 | 2 | 45 | 1 | 11 | 110 | – | 2 | 11 | 20 | 584 | 46 |
| Lambeth | – | 9 | – | 884 | 2 | 4 | 28 | 142 | 2 | 75 | 665 | – | 2 | 27 | 49 | 1,130 | 72 |
| Battersea | – | 3 | 2 | 500 | – | 5 | 2 | 69 | 2 | 44 | 555 | – | 2 | 4 | 25 | 526 | 2 |
| Wandsworth | – | 15 | – | 774 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 154 | 4 | 46 | 769 | – | 6 | 20 | 29 | 927 | 15 |
| Camberwell | 1 | 4 | – | 658 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 121 | 3 | 18 | 265 | – | 2 | 8 | 26 | 1,043 | 117 |
| Deptford | – | 4 | – | 401 | – | 3 | 5 | 54 | – | 14 | 171 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 641 | 19 |
| Greenwich | – | 1 | – | 362 | – | 4 | 5 | 61 | 1 | 15 | 151 | – | 3 | 4 | 11 | 349 | 1 |
| Lewisham | – | 4 | – | 414 | – | 6 | 110 | 71 | 1 | 20 | 356 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 28 | 842 | 8 |
| Woolwich | 1 | 8 | – | 469 | – | 4 | 6 | 79 | 1 | 17 | 344 | – | 4 | 13 | 33 | 531 | 5 |