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 Hornsey, Borough of]
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I have also appended the death rates from 33 of the largest English Towns and also their annual death rate from zymotic diseases.
Sanitary Area. | Estimated population in the middle of 1897. | Notified cases of Infectious Disease. | Deaths from Principal Infectious Diseases. | Deaths from all causes. | Death-rate per 1,000 living. | Deaths of Infants under One Year to 1,000 Births. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. * | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Cholera. | Total. | Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria, f | Whooping Cough. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other continued Fevers. | Diarrhoea. | Total. | Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | |||||
London | 4,463,169 | 104 | 22,850 | 13,192 | 4 | 3,106 | 65 | 264 | 5,796 | 38 | 45,419 | 10.2 | 16 | 1,927 | 779 | 2,240 | 1,837 | 1 | 557 | 8 | 4,089 | 11,454 | 2.57 | 78,972 | 17.7 | 158 |
St. Pancras | 242,255 | 3 | 942 | 542 | — | 223 | 8 | 16 | 388 | 3 | 2,124 | 8.8 | 1 | 87 | 24 | 114 | 124 | — | 38 | — | 209 | 597 | 2.47 | 4,518 | 18.7 | 168 |
Islington | 341,134 | 3 | 1,577 | 733 | — | 259 | 1 | 27 | 313 | 1 | 2,914 | 8.6 | 1 | 99 | 61 | 129 | 134 | — | 45 | — | 184 | 653 | 1.91 | 5,387 | 15.8 | 136 |
Hampstead | 77,275 | — | 224 | 107 | — | 32 | 2 | 2 | 40 | — | 407 | 5.3 | — | 9 | 6 | 17 | 25 | — | 5 | — | 28 | 90 | 1.16 | 911 | 11-8 | 127 |
Finchley | 20,064 | — | 54 | 20 | — | 13 | — | 2 | 15 | — | 104 | 0.l | — | 11 | — | 1 | 4 | — | 2 | — | 16 | 34 | 1.69 | 205 | 10.2 | 101 |
Hornsey | 65,082 | — | 264 | 90 | — | 31 | — | 2 | 39 | — | 426 | 6.54 | — | 7 | 2 | 19 | 10 | — | — | — | 29 | 67 | 1-02 | 548 | 8'41 | 103 |
33 great towns | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2-87 | — | 19-1 | 177 |
* Including cases of Membranous Croup.
† Including deaths from Membranous Croup.