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 London County Council]
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The following table has been prepared from quarterly returns supplied by the
medical officers of health of the metropolitan boroughs as to the number of cases
added to and removed from the notification registers in each borough during the
registration year, and the numbers remaining on the registers at the beginning and
end of the period. As these figures relate to the registration year, the totals are
not the same as those shown in the preceding tables.
Table 25.
Metropolitan boroughs in topographical order | Cases on notification register at beginning of 1936 | Cases added to register during registration year. Brought to knowledge by | Cases removed from register during the registration year | Cases on notification register at end of 1936 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Notification | Otherwise | Cured, removed, etc. | Deaths | Total | Per 1,000 of population | ||
Paddington | 1,033 | 217 | 24 | 257 | 65 | 952 | 6.8 |
Kensington | 779 | 208 | 103 | 285 | 131 | 674 | 3.8 |
Hammersmith | 1,059 | 196 | 54 | 125 | 121 | 1,063 | 8.3 |
Fulham | 1,778 | 243 | 16 | 131 | 122 | 1,784 | 12.6 |
Chelsea | 350 | 100 | 34 | 114 | 60 | 310 | 5.5 |
Westminster, City of | 1,474 | 188 | 34 | 92 | 89 | 1,515 | 12.2 |
St. Marylebone | 858 | 130 | 31 | 226 | 84 | 709 | 7.7 |
Hampstead | 440 | 94 | 40 | 188 | 45 | 341 | 3.8 |
St. Pancras | 1,155 | 288 | 92 | 328 | 157 | 1,050 | 5.7 |
Islington | 2,323 | 530 | 110 | 404 | 247 | 2,312 | 7.7 |
Stoke Newington | 304 | 67 | 40 | 69 | 62 | 280 | 5.6 |
Hackney | 1,862 | 249 | 96 | 519 | 177 | 1,511 | 7.2 |
Holborn | 326 | 68 | 22 | 42 | 34 | 340 | 9.8 |
Finsbury | 748 | 100 | 19 | 365 | 97 | 405 | 6.7 |
City of London | 70 | 19 | 1 | 28 | 4 | 58 | 6.1 |
Shoreditch | 1,538 | 116 | 35 | 132 | 81 | 1,476 | 17.3 |
Bethnal Green | 1,268 | 137 | 30 | 143 | 92 | 1,200 | 12.4 |
Stepney | 2,123 | 344 | 51 | 226 | 156 | 2,136 | 10.3 |
Poplar | 1,096 | 226 | 40 | 279 | 142 | 941 | 6.7 |
Southwark | 1,586 | 257 | 30 | 233 | 137 | 1,503 | 9.9 |
Bermondsey | 934 | 176 | 25 | 124 | 94 | 917 | 9.1 |
Lambeth | 2,526 | 405 | 89 | 291 | 209 | 2,520 | 9.1 |
Battersea | 933 | 232 | 26 | 200 | 149 | 842 | 5.8 |
Wandsworth | 2,114 | 399 | 170 | 357 | 245 | 2,081 | 6.1 |
Camberwell | 2,112 | 299 | 75 | 236 | 202 | 2,048 | 8.9 |
Deptford | 717 | 156 | 20 | 100 | 64 | 729 | 7.4 |
Greenwich | 647 | 161 | 34 | 126 | 69 | 647 | 6.7 |
Lewisham | 1,538 | 379 | 35 | 161 | 157 | 1,634 | 7.3 |
Woolwich | 975 | 248 | 30 | 165 | 122 | 966 | 6.6 |