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Islington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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1907
Table CIII.
| Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population in the middle of 1907. | Notified Cases of Infectious Disease. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria.* | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | i Erysipelas, | Cei ebro-spinal meningitis. | Total. | ||
| LONDON | 4,758.218 | 8 | 25,925 | 8,770 | 5 | 1,391 | 36 | 253 | 4.494 | 132 | 41,014 |
| Paddington | 149,909 | 577 | 169 | 34 | 1 | 6 | 124 | 911 | |||
| Kensington | 181,842 | 532 | 250 | 40 | 4 | 2 | 127 | 2 | 957 | ||
| Hammersmith | 122,337 | 581 | 215 | 40 | 7 | 78 | 4 | 925 | |||
| Fulham | 166,749 | 668 | 605 | 58 | I | 15 | 130 | 3 | 1,480 | ||
| Chelsea | 74,857 | 219 | 158 | 21 | 4 | 44 | 4 | 450 | |||
| City of Westminster | 172,219 | 418 | 145 | 51 | 2 | 8 | 102 | 4 | 725 | ||
| St. Marylebone | 127,718 | 1 | 435 | 128 | 31 | .. | 7 | 134 | 4 | 740 | |
| Hampstead | 91,137 | 1 | 320 | 112 | 21 | 8 | 56 | 513 | |||
| St Pancras | 236,753 | 1 | 848 | 349 | 55 | 1 | 4 | 183 | 5 | 1,446 | |
| Islington | 347,017 | . . | 1 216 | 481 | 92 | 1 | 21 | 252 | 11 | 2,074 | |
| Stoke Newington.. | 53,6] 3 | . . | 252 | 118 | 15 | 2 | 30 | 1 | 418 | ||
| Hackney | 232,993 | .. | 1,808 | 543 | i | 108 | 2 | 15 | 311 | 4 | 2,792 |
| Holborn | 55,134 | # . | 157 | 64 | 1 | 14 | a. | 1 | 39 | 2 | 278 |
| Finsbury | 96,732 | . . | 505 | 155 | . . | 23 | 3 | 109 | 3 | 798 | |
| City of London | 20,310 | 2 | 97 | 28 | 9 | 15 | 151 | ||||
| Shoreditch | 115 662 | 1 | 877 | 223 | .. | 36 | .. | 3 | 138 | 6 | 1,284 |
| Bethnal Green | 130,831 | .. | 10,288 | 290 | 1 | 55 | 5 | 247 | 8 | 1,894 | |
| Stepney | 308,923 | . . | 3,128 | 751 | 1 | 120 | 10 | 16 | 473 | 9 | 1,51)8 |
| Poplar | 171,086 | 1 | 1,285 | 360 | . . | 81 | .. | 14 | 187 | 11 | 1,939 |
| Southwark | 209,781 | 1,275 | 422 | 80 | .. | 19 | 256 | 10 | 1,062 | ||
| Bermondsey | 128,263 | 1,021 | 319 | 45 | .. | 5 | 143 | 7 | 1,540 | ||
| Lambeth | 318,538 | 1,478 | 327 | 1 | 54 | 6 | 23 | 225 | 13 | 2127 | |
| Battersea | 181,736 | 977 | 359 | .. | 44 | 1 | 13 | 175 | 10 | 1,579 | |
| Wandsworth | 281,419 | 1,321 | 636 | .. | 69 | 1 | 27 | 214 | 3 | !. 271 | |
| Camberwell | 277,059 | 1,571 | 405 | .. | 82 | .. | 16 | 264 | 3 | 3,341 | |
| Deptford .. | 116,510 | 777 | 318 | .. | 34 | 6 | 4 | 145 | 2 | 1,286 | |
| Greenwich | 107.222 | 661 | 257 | .. | 18 | .. | 2 | 93 | 1 | 1,032 | |
| Lewisham .. .. | 152,532 | 604 | 302 | .. | 32 | .. | 7 | 96 | 1 | I 032 | |
| Woolwich | 129,336 | 1,027 | 279 | .. | 27 | .. | 6 | 113 | 1 | 1,453 | |
| Port of London .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 8 |
* Including Membranous Croup.
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