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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
Deptford 1925
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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| Disease. | Notified in | Admitted to Hospital. | Total Deaths. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | |
| Smallpox | 0 | *1 | 0 | *1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scarlet Fever | 951 | 547 | 349 | 291 | 310 | 876 | 530 | 331 | 278 | 303 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Diphtheria | 363 | 459 | 417 | 374 | 610 | 357 | 452 | 409 | 371 | 606 | 13 | 39 | 33 | 15 | 23 |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid | 9 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Puerperal Fever | 11 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| Pneumonia | 47 | 125 | 74 | 144 | 153 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 119 | 201 | 91 | 150 | 114 |
| Erysipelas | 58 | 75 | 57 | 79 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 20 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 3 | 2 | 0 | *1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Poliomyelitis | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Malaria | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dysentery | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Measles | 0 | 28 | 204 | 1282 | 1207 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 92 | 109 | 1 | 59 | 8 | 34 | 31 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 |
| *Was not a true case. Measles became notified in September, 1922. | |||||||||||||||
This table shows clearly that cases of Pneumonia are not notified by
practitioners as they should be. In every year the number of deaths
has exceeded the number of notifications.
In a previous part of the report will be found a record of the
pathological work carried out for the Borough at the Seamen's Hospital.