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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 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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East DiastrickShoreditch...............335398273242013397267223341125,594126,961
Bethnal Green...............15195655145225918159253483246126,961
Whitechapel...............9235048130...27132231223327022271,363
St. George-in-the-East...............10175126104313...7121012195316447,157
Stepney...............5183318743310521101315114914458,243
Mile End Old Town...............616222367...1107185512224109105,613
Poplar...............11165051128441533568775.5272111430156,510692.438
South District.St. Saviour...2......27781159135452629163372111232519195,164
St. Olave3.........3265311711831482411255481027369134,632
Lambeth44......8106159150185600465112632071747681253,699
Wandsworth and Clapham...............556511410634091513175458112953447210,434
Camberwell...............778410311337774820398641028444186,593
Greenwich1.........2214057661842281022116311219131,233
Woolwich...............2333281910311248...1...2311480,845
Lewisham...3......3128222365.........332...31677287073,3371,265,937
Port of London......112......2...2......1...1...............55
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In addition to the cases in the Table, 15 cases of typhus were admitted, 10 from St. Olave, Southwark ; 2 each from Hackney and
Greenwich; and one from St. Saviour, Southwark; 59 cases of "other diseases" were admitted through error in diagnosis. At
the close of the year there were remaining 1936 cases, viz.: scarlet fever 1613, diphtheria 158, enteric fever 157, typhus 1, and
"other diseases" 7.
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