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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

Kensington 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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East. District-Bethnal Green...............29112925943...33938351258161126.961
Whitechapel2............1410924......1234111512427271,363
St. George's-in-the-East ... Stepney...............10 134 914 1621 3449 722 32 212 41 517 149 39 1630 2012 1760 56126 14247,157 58,243
Mile End Old Town...............23293468...233854161742118105,613
Poplar...............26416247032823363121917511571032156,510692.438
South District*.St. Saviour's...............154817318742311248126413444195,164
St. Olave's...............202117431011271012159120134,632
Lambeth...............77871182335152...10618521272655925.3,699
Wandsworth and Clapham...............4657571002605461328137718306210,434
Camberwell...............232561131240......3472...9920267186,593
Greenwich...............3105645114115512......314131131,233
Woolwich...............11482043.........22.........114680,845
Lewisham...............36112739113......213......112118199173,3371,265,937
3......256026291436189445614331.1171803718412628227877057075707

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In addition to the cases in the Table, 24 cases of typhus were admitted, 19 from St. Olave's, Southwark; 2 from Hackney ; and one each
from Stepney, Mile End Old Town, and Wandsworth and Clapham; 42 cases of "other diseases" were admitted through error in
diagnosis. At the close of the year there were remaining 1797 cases, via.: scarlet fever 1521, diphtheria 135,enteue fever 12:i
typhus 9, and " other diseases" 9.