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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

Fulham 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]

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Table: TABLE C.Showing the number of Cases of Infectious Diseases notified to the several Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health during the YearL90G.

TABLE C.

Showing the number of Cases of Infectious Diseases notified to the several Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health during the YearL90G.

Cities and Boroughs.Estimated population in the middle of 1906.Small-pox.Scarlet Fev-r.Diphtheria.Typhus Fever.Enteric Feser.Other continued Fevers.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Cholera.Total.Annual rate per 1000 persons living.
West Districts.
Fulham159,350-674404—45—18140-12818.0
Paddington148,913l717183—34112139—10877.3
Kensington180,952—470178—39—13148—8484.7
Hammersmith120,679—437278—33112125—8867.4
Chelsea74,672—271162—17—1260—5227.0
City of Westminster173,905—537209—4729127—9315.4
North Districts.
St. Marylebone128,580-396141—48—614817405.8
Hampstead89,633—38799—211251—5616.3
St. Pancras236,455—798279—95—10235—14176.0
Islington344,987113924393146124277—22836.6
Stoke Newington53,217—13547—10—147—2404.5
Hackney230,72191049389193219301—18638.1
Central Districts.
Holborn55,805-13866-15-257-2785.0
Finsbury97,466-449198-45—7139—8388.6
City of London21,367-11318-10——18—1597.5
East Districts.
Shoreditch116,108-627144-37-6150-9648.3
Bethnal Green130,6096650252-55—11245—12199.4
Stepney307,176412196041124—6415—23737.7
Poplar170,6732571249-86—8206—11226.6
South Districts.
%Southwark209,143-1470401-111-133321232811.2
Bermondsey128,6291990336241—2195—156712.2
Lambeth315.774—1264422—90125273—20756.6
Battersea179,622—1048275—45—13161—15428.6
Wandsworth273,381—1069556—96—23269—20137.4
Camberwell274,13261161355—59—15305—19017.0
Deptford115,4951643305—41—9158—115710.0
Greenwich105,350—567409—43—6100—112510.7
Lewisham148,463—557261—25—697—9466.4
Woolwich127,345—525386—41897—10578.3
Port of London ...——5——8——4—17—
London ...4,718,6023120,32980457160092985019 4235,3407.5