London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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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| Name of District. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Other Continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas | Croup. | Cholera. | Total. | Population in 1881. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kensington | 2 | 179 | 108 | 63 | 73 | 7 | 432 | 163,151 | ||||
| Battersea | 237 | 120 | 61 | 3 | 8 | 140 | 14 | 583 | 107,262 | |||
| Bermondsey ... | 259 | 18 | 34 | 8 | 60 | 10 | 390 | 86,652 | ||||
| Bethnal Green | 181 | 104 | 73 | 3 | 3 | 69 | 25 | 458 | 126,961 | |||
| Camber well ... | 2 | 360 | 149 | 73 | 1 | 5 | 113 | 14 | 717 | 186,593 | ||
| Chelsea | 1-36 | 50 | 40 | 1 | 4 | 69 | 10 | 310 | 88,101 | |||
| Clerkenvvell | 98 | 34 | 27 | 1 | 1 | •28 | 190 | 69,076 | ||||
| Fulham | 263 | 22 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 52 | 13 | 382 | 49,900 | ||
| Greenwich | 2 | 297 | 8.3 | 49 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 102 | 9 | 553 | 131,233 | |
| Hackney | 477 | 140 | 93 | 2 | 9 | 86 | 25 | 832 | 186,462 | |||
| Hammersmith | 223 | 87 | 28 | 45 | 2 | 31 | 2 | 418 | 71,939 | |||
| Hampstead ... | 98 | 36 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 154 | 45,452 | |||||
| Holborn | 1 | 72 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 111 | 35,258 | ||||
| Islington | 1 | 534 | 150 | 126 | 9 | 7 | 121 | 25 | 973 | 282,865 | ||
| Lambeth | 1:3 | 654 | 164 | 80 | 2 | 34 | 8 | 152 | 36 | 1143 | 253,699 | |
| Lewisham | * | 143 | 20 | 18 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 206 | 53,065 | |||
| Limehouss | 101 | 43 | 34 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 5 | 212 | 58,513 | |||
| Mile End ...... | .... | 199 | 57 | 29 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 12 | 1 | 332 | 105,573 | |
| Newington ... | 67 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 76 | 107,850 | ||||||
| Paddington ... | 111 | 59 | 32 | 2 | 3 | 38 | 2 | 247 | 107,218 | |||
| Plumstead | 2 | 127 | 32 | 12 | 2 | 31 | 8 | 214 | 33,250 | |||
| Poplar | 260 | 114 | 92 | 16 | 2 | 108 | 36 | 628 | 156,510 | |||
| Rotherhithe ... | 1 | 61 | 47 | 21 | 1 | 43 | 3 | 180 | 36,024 | |||
| Slioreditch | 355 | 81 | 49 | 2 | 6 | 48 | 20 | 561 | 126,591 | |||
| StGeorge-in-the-East... | 58 | 32 | 20 | 2 | 27 | 4 | 143 | 47,157 | ||||
| St. George, Hanover Sqr. | 61 | 22 | 22 | ... | 4 | 24 | 2 | 135 | 89,573 | |||
| St. George-the-Martyr... | 1 | 143 | 8 | 12 | 24 | 6 | 194 | 58,652 | ||||
| St. Giles, Bloomsbury... | 31 | 16 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 5 | 111 | 45,382 | |||
| St. James, Westminster | 28 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 52 | 29,941 | ||||
| St. Luke, Middlesex | 99 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 7 | 169 | 46,849 | |||
| St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 7 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 25 | 17,508 | |||||
| St. Marylebone | 2 | 77 | 32 | 40 | 7 | 3 | 73 | 5 | 239 | 154,910 | ||
| St. Olave, Southwark ... | 48 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 70 | 11,957 | ||||
| St. Pancras ... | 4 | 232 | 147 | 78 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 195 | 11 | 676 | 23.6,258 | |
| St. Saviour, Southwark | 76 | 17 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 121 | 28,662 | |||||
| Strand | 13 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 33 | 32,587 | |||||
| Wandsworth... | 2 | 159 | 55 | 41 | 2 | 4 | 49 | 4 | 316 | 103,172 | ||
| Westminster ... | 34 | 8 | 5 | 18 | 65 | 53,926 | ||||||
| Whitechapel ... | 1 | 46 | 24 | 12 | 2 | 25 | 7 | 117 | 70,435 | |||
| Woolwich | 1 | 42 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 64 | 36,635 | |||
| City of London | 65 | 23 | 23 | 9 | 120 | |||||||
| Port of London | 3 | 4 | ... | 8 | ||||||||
| Totals | 40 | 6712 | 2157 | 1425 | 23 | 148 | 99 | 1997 | 358 | 1 | 12960 |