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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
Mile End 1896
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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| Name of District. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. * | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other Continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Cholera. | Totals. | Estimated Population in the middle of 1896. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registration London | 225 | 25647 | 13808 | 6 | 3190 | 103 | 277 | 6436 | 13 | 49705 | 4421955 |
| Paddington | 4 | 795 | 247 | ... | 61 | 1 | 10 | 119 | ... | 1237 | 124838 |
| Kensington | 13 | 1020 | 372 | ... | 95 | 7 | 8 | 275 | ... | 1790 | 170660 |
| Hammersmith | 3 | 532 | 218 | 1 | 51 | 4 | 9 | 121 | ... | 939 | 104551 |
| Fulham | 2 | 628 | 353 | ... | 54 | 5 | 9 | 99 | ... | 1155 | 115008 |
| Chelsea | 2 | 571 | 488 | ... | 66 | 2 | 6 | 120 | ... | 1255 | 9b657 |
| St. George, Hanover Sq. | 1 | 342 | 124 | ... | 54 | 1 | 2 | 56 | ... | 580 | 80041 |
| Westminster | 2 | 224 | 109 | ... | 35 | 2 | 1 | 79 | ... | 452 | 53477 |
| St. James, Westminster | 3 | 75 | 37 | ... | 6 | ... | 2 | 20 | ... | 143 | 22955 |
| St. Marylebone | 4 | 811 | 292 | ... | 107 | ... | 3 | 248 | ... | 1465 | 14114 |
| Hampstead | ... | 289 | 199 | ... | 58 | 2 | 6 | 54 | ... | 608 | 75812 |
| St. Pancras | 6 | 1079 | 482 | ... | 200 | 1 | 21 | 355 | ... | 2144 | 241066 |
| Islington | 51 | 2047 | 1117 | ... | 236 | 6 | 31 | 394 | ... | 3882 | 337639 |
| Stoke Newington | 2 | 226 | 80 | ... | 16 | ... | 1 | 40 | ... | 365 | 33615 |
| Hackney | 8 | 1533 | 593 | ... | 202 | 7 | 6 | 311 | ... | 2660 | 213774 |
| St. Giles, Bloomsbury | ... | 180 | 60 | ... | 21 | ... | 1 | 80 | ... | 342 | 38158 |
| St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 1 | 73 | 16 | ... | 18 | 2 | 1 | 12 | ... | 123 | 13003 |
| Strand | ... | 132 | 37 | ... | 8 | ... | 1 | 11 | ... | 189 | 23820 |
| Holborn | 1 | 123 | 72 | ... | 30 | 1 | 2 | 65 | ... | 295 | 30932 |
| Clerkenwell | 5 | 461 | 246 | ... | 67 | ... | 4 | 108 | ... | 891 | 66195 |
| St. Luke, Middlesex | 2 | 264 | 133 | ... | 38 | 2 | 2 | 133 | ... | 574 | 41478 |
| City of London | 2 | 197 | 72 | ... | 21 | 1 | ... | 34 | ... | 327 | 31409 |
| Shoreditch | 1 | 708 | 371 | ... | 117 | 9 | 3 | 297 | ... | 1506 | 122265 |
| Bethnal Green | 2 | 1257 | 460 | ... | 129 | 1 | 12 | 327 | ... | 2191 | 129151 |
| Whitechapel | 4 | 638 | 351 | ... | 62 | ... | 2 | 138 | ... | 1195 | 78886 |
| St. George-in-the-East | 2 | 378 | 214 | ... | 33 | 1 | 2 | 89 | ... | 719 | 47589 |
| Limehouse | 7 | 350 | 270 | ... | 27 | 1 | 4 | 110 | ... | 769 | 58347 |
| Mile. End Old Town | 1 | 763 | 548 | ... | 115 | 2 | 5 | 206 | ... | 1640 | 111226 |
| Poplar | 9 | 964 | 701 | ... | 184 | 8 | 7 | 315 | 1 | 2189 | 169379 |
| St. Saviour, Southwark | 4 | 140 | 83 | ... | 9 | ... | ... | 35 | ... | 271 | 25276 |
| St. George-the-Martyr | 3 | 335 | 193 | ... | 48 | ... | 3 | 95 | ... | 677 | 60301 |
| Newington | 3 | 677 | 407 | ... | 88 | 1 | 9 | 194 | ... | 1379 | 121191 |
| St. Olave, Southwark | ... | 62 | 44 | ... | 9 | ... | ... | 21 | ... | 136 | 11673 |
| Bermondsey | 4 | 394 | 258 | ... | 55 | ... | 5 | 131 | ... | 857 | 85508 |
| Rotherhithe | 5 | 198 | 123 | ... | 45 | 1 | 6 | 113 | 1 | 492 | 40432 |
| Lambeth | 18 | 1595 | 692 | 1 | 165 | 14 | 20 | 355 | 6 | 2866 | 296036 |
| Battersea | 8 | 1175 | 419 | ... | 109 | 1 | 10 | 253 | ... | 1975 | 165864 |
| Wandsworth | 2 | 1000 | 299 | ... | 102 | 8 | 11 | 265 | ... | 1688 | 188908 |
| Camberwell | 13 | 1222 | 1430 | 3 | 175 | ... | 16 | 319 | 1 | 3179 | 253975 |
| Greenwich | 14 | 1163 | 836 | ... | 113 | 3 | 17 | 242 | ... | 2388 | 176293 |
| Lewisham (exclu.Penge) | 1 | 343 | 365 | ... | 58 | ... | 9 | 79 | ... | 855 | 83795 |
| Woolwich | 1 | 146 | 102 | ... | 21 | 3 | 1 | 45 | ... | 319 | 41334 |
| Lee | 1 | 168 | 75 | ... | 28 | ... | 6 | 37 | ... | 315 | 38714 |
| Plumstead | 4 | 363 | 208 | ... | 29 | 3 | 3 | 43 | 1 | 654 | 59610 |
| Port of London | 5 | 5 | 6 | ... | 17 | ... | ... | 2 | ... | 35 | ... |
| * Including membranous croup of which there were 11 in Mile End. | |||||||||||