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Mile End 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]

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Cases of Infectious Disease notified to the several Metropolitan Medical
Officers of Health, under the provisions of the Infectious Disease (Notification)
Act, 1889, in the 53 Weeks ended Saturday, Jan. 3rd, 1891.
Name of District.
Small-pox.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Enteric Fever.
Typhus Fever.
Other Continued Fevers.
Puerperal Fever.
Erysipelas.
1
Croup.
Cholera.
Total.
Population
in 1881.
Mile End.

387
138
127
2
2
2
102
11

771
105,573
Battersea
1
506
310
135
2
7
17
251
33

1262
107,262
Bermondsey

613
68
55
3
2
6
155

1
926
86,652
Bethnal Green
1
487
390
146
...
8
7
l86
38

1263
126,961
Camberwell ...

931
250
*53
1
5
13
253
23

1629
186,593
Chelsea

274
273
80
1
2
2
l6l
21

814
88,101
Clerkenwell ...
2
369
81
44
1
5
2
85
7

596
69,076
Fulham
2
298
67
79
2
1
9
116
23

597
49,900
Greenwich
2
795
*75
101
3
0
8
273
16

1377
131,233
Hackney
1
1225
422
223
2
13
17
212
41

2156
186,462
Hammersmith

350
218
69
3
47
1
75
9
1
773
71,939
Hampstead

188
9i
7i

1
1
30
2
1
385
45,452
Holborn
1
188
35
27

1
...
22
6

280
35,258
Islington
1
1249
39$
?20

8
23
298
32
1
2231
282,865
Kensington
2
390
217
98

6
10
144
9

876
163,151
Lambeth
17
1127
316
167
1
42
12
255
47
7
1991
253,699
Lewisham
1
215
39
30

3
27
3

318
53,065
Limehouse

214
116
82
1
5

57
9

484
58,543
Newington

152
10
19
1




182
107,850
Paddington

214
218
68

3
6
88
1

598
107,218
Plumstead
5
284
67
31


7
59
11
1
468
71,567
Poplar
2
823
397
240
1
39
4
331
85
4
1926
156,510
Rotherhithe
4
192
78
37
1
1
5
95
9

422
36,024
Shoreditch

746
195
154
3
2
6
125
22
1
1254
126,591
St. George-in-the-East.
2
186
88
44

1
2
59
3

385
47,157
St.George, Hanover Sqr.

167
79
45

5
...
39
3
1
339
89,573
St. George-the-Martyr.
2
257
25
30
1

4
53
11
1
384
58,652
St. Giles, Bloomsbury

144
51
33
1

1
66
5
2
303
45,382
St. James, Westminster

51
14
6

1

8
2

82
29,941
St. Luke, Middlesex

289
33
29

2
1
68
3

425
46,849
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
1
21
6
6


6


40
17,508
St. Marylebone
2
249
93
74

11
3
182
9

623
154,910
St. Olave, Southwark

79
8
13
2


11


113
11,957
St. Pancras
5
657
409
155
1
5
12
418
22
2
1686
236,258
St. Saviour, Southwark.

109
30
14

1

241
5
1
184
28,662
Strand ...

58
8
9

3

10
3

91
32,587
Wandsworth
1
319
105
84

8
8
145
5

675
103,172
Westminster
1
131
41
17

67
1

258
59,926
W hitechapel
3
256
125
57
2
• •
5
55
12

515
70,435
1
Woolwich

99
12
16

1
6
23


157
36,665
City of London

129
32
19

3
28


211
Port of London
1
4
3
5

3


16