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Deptford 1919

Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford

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Table No. 4. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1919.

Notifiable DiseaseNumber of cases notified.Total cases notified in each Ward.Total Cases Removed to Hospital.
At all AgesAt Ayes—YearsEast WardNorth WardNorth-West WardSouth WardSouth-East WardSouth-West Ward
Under 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 4545 to 6565 and upwards
Chicken Pox..............................
Small-pox..............................
Cholera..............................
Diphtheria including Membranous Croup270..681552522....325593243135253
Erysipelas70.s465282072018124313..
Scarlet fever51741333363410....126169119294430443
Typhus fever..............................
Enteric fever8....1343..11411..7
Measles1439427466301173..3723563431311011366
German Measles693214113....8121412679..
Relapsing fever..............................
Continued fever..............................
Puerperal fever90......36......321216
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis2......11............2..2
Poliomyelitis3..21..106......2......1..
Pulmonary Tuberculosis292178358..343797352192742165
Other forms of Tuberculosis Ophthalmia9232752541..38321411611
Ophthalmia Neonatorum Anthrax27192....1....354842.
Anthrax1........1......1........1
Pneumonia1093418213818731261971610..
Malaria66......15455 i12899749..
Diarrhœa1154768..........662213..12..::
Dysentery4........4....13..........
Totals3087122108413231822798118805787193239254304895