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 Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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Name of District. | Deaths from all causes. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. * | Whooping Cough. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other continued Fevers. | Diarrhoea. | Annual Rate per 1,000 living. | Death rate per 1000 living. |
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Registration London | 81721 | 9 | 3692 | 940 | 2663 | 2931 | 5 | 564 | 13 | 3922 | 3.1 | 18.2 |
Paddington | 1947 | 1 | 103 | 22 | 65 | 49 | ... | 13 | 1 | 66 | 2.5 | 15.3 |
Kensington | 2914 | ... | 173 | 40 | 70 | 99 | ... | 16 | 1 | 60 | 2.6 | 16.8 |
Hammersmith | 1828 | ... | 62 | 21 | 52 | 62 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 85 | 2.8 | 17.2 |
Fulham | 2057 | ... | 101 | 29 | 77 | 69 | ... | 9 | ... | 134 | 3.6 | 17.6 |
Chelsea | 1850 | ... | 110 | 23 | 115 | 63 | ... | 10 | 1 | 66 | 3.9 | 18.8 |
St. George, Hanover Sq. | 1108 | ... | 32 | 11 | 24 | 15 | ... | 9 | ... | 20 | 1.4 | 13.6 |
Westminster | 978 | ... | 18 | 10 | 20 | 26 | ... | 9 | ... | 35 | 2.2 | 18.0 |
St. James, Westminster | 397 | ... | 31 | 3 | 2 | 3 | ... | 3 | ... | 10 | 2.2 | 17.0 |
Marylebone | 2855 | ... | 195 | 26 | 74 | 70 | ... | 20 | ... | 68 | 3.2 | 19.9 |
Hampstead | 916 | ... | 58 | 7 | 30 | 22 | ... | 7 | ... | 17 | 1.8 | 11.9 |
St. Pancras | 4442 | ... | 133 | 37 | 99 | 128 | ... | 31 | ... | 180 | 2.5 | 18.1 |
Islington | 5871 | 1 | 275 | 57 | 255 | 247 | ... | 47 | 1 | 160 | 3.0 | 17.1 |
Stoke Newington | 434 | ... | 5 | 8 | 19 | 16 | ... | 5 | ... | 27 | 2.3 | 12.7 |
Hackney | 3414 | ... | 95 | 36 | 103 | 147 | 1 | 37 | 1 | 192 | 2.8 | 15.7 |
St. Giles, Bloomsbury | 737 | ... | 41 | 7 | 7 | 14 | ... | 4 | ... | 16 | 2.3 | 19.0 |
St. Martin.in.the.Fields | 214 | ... | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | ... | 3 | ... | 5 | 2.3 | 16.2 |
Strand | 550 | ... | 28 | 6 | 3 | 8 | ... | 1 | ... | 13 | 2.4 | 22.7 |
Holborn | 736 | 1 | 33 | 12 | 27 | 1 | 5 | ... | 22 | 3.2 | 23.4 | |
Clerkenwell | 1393 | ... | 53 | 15 | 42 | 42 | ... | 15 | ... | 88 | 3.8 | 20.7 |
St. Luke, Middlesex | 1059 | ... | 35 | 21 | 26 | 23 | ... | 4 | ... | 52 | 3.8 | 25.1 |
City of London | 626 | ... | 6 | 7 | 11 | 7 | ... | 10 | ... | 5 | 1.4 | 19.6 |
Shoreditch | 2656 | 1 | 143 | 39 | 74 | 126 | ... | 17 | ... | 136 | 4.3 | 21.4 |
Bethnal Green | 2902 | ... | 153 | 35 | 75 | 160 | ... | 20 | 1 | 113 | 4.2 | 22.1 |
Whitechapel | 1655 | ... | 51 | 20 | 48 | 36 | ... | 9 | 1 | 45 | 2.6 | 20.6 |
St. George in-the-East | 1187 | ... | 28 | 18 | 30 | 17 | ... | 5 | ... | 60 | 3.3 | 24.5 |
Limehouse | 1357 | ... | 62 | 15 | 49 | 61 | ... | 3. | ... | 46 | 4.0 | 22.9 |
Mile End Old Town | 2252 | ... | 61 | 38 | 97 | 77 | ... | 16 | ... | 74 | 3.6 | 19.9 |
Poplar | 3550 | ... | 147 | 33 | 105 | 158 | ... | 26 | ... | 168 | 3.7 | 20.6 |
St. Saviour, Southwark | 587 | ... | 17 | 5 | 18 | 19 | ... | 1 | ... | 23 | 3.2 | 22.8 |
St. George, Southwark | 1472 | ... | 77 | 17 | 40 | 55 | ... | 7 | ... | 64 | 4.2 | 24.0 |
Newington | 2527 | 1 | 98 | 29 | 71 | 66 | ... | 18 | ... | 127 | 3.3 | 20.5 |
St. Olave, Southwark | 261 | ... | 11 | 5 | 9 | 13 | ... | 2 | ... | 17 | 4.8 | 22.0 |
Bermondsey | 1873 | ... | 75 | 20 | 73 | 97 | ... | 11 | ... | 52 | 3.8 | 21.6 |
Rotherhithe | 834 | ... | 43 | 10 | 26 | 36 | ... | 11 | ... | 31 | 3.8 | 20.3 |
Lambeth | 5084 | 2 | 182 | 65 | 139 | 140 | 1 | 24 | 1 | 175 | 2.4 | I6.9 |
Battersea | 2985 | ... | 179 | 32 | 82 | 138 | ... | 16 | 1 | 186 | 3.6 | 17.7 |
Wandsworth | 2749 | ... | 151 | 29 | 40 | 158 | ... | 21 | ... | 121 | 2.7 | 14.3 |
Camber well | 4602 | ... | 206 | 52 | 260 | 196 | 1 | 37 | ... | 176 | 3.6 | 17.8 |
Greenwich | 8323 | 2 | 193 | 51 | 140 | 127 | ... | 32 | 1 | 120 | 3.7 | 18.5 |
Lewisham (exclu.Penge) | 1216 | ... | 39 | 7 | 75 | 28 | ... | 9 | ... | 60 | 2.6 | 14.3 |
Woolwich | 861 | ... | 72 | 9 | 31 | 22 | ... | 2 | 1 | 28 | 3.9 | 20.5 |
Lee | 526 | ... | 14 | 8 | 17 | 18 | ... | 2 | ... | 15 | 1.9 | 13.4 |
Plumstead | 936 | ... | 69 | 18 | 55 | 35 | ... | 4 | ... | 33 | 3.5 | 15.4 |
* Including deaths from membranous croup. |