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 Lewisham Borough]
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1909. The attack rate for the County of London was 5*31,
compared with 4-43 in 1910.
The attack rates for the Wards will be found in Table
17. It will be seen that Lewisham Park Ward had the largest
number of cases in proportion to its population, having an
attack rate of 6'82 per 1,000. The lowest attack rate was
in South Ward, 2*84 per 1,000.
Table 16.
Number of Cases
Wards. | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria. | Knteric Fever | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Cerebro-Spinal Fever. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Polio-Myelitis or Polio-Encephalitis | Total. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Church | 8 | 11 | l | 2 | _ | — | — | — | 22 |
2 Manor | 22 | 17 | l | 7 | — | — | — | — | 47 |
3 South | 9 | 7 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | 18 |
Lee Division | 39 | 35 | 2 | 11 | — | — | — | — | 87 |
4 Blackheath | 10 | 8 | _ | 5 | l | _ | 2 | — | 26 |
5 Lewisham Village | 15 | 25 | 2 | 13 | l | — | 4 | — | 60 |
6 Lewisham Park | 41 | 54 | 2 | 15 | 2 | — | 2 | l | 117 |
7 Brockley | 46 | 15 | — | 5 | — | — | 1 | — | 67 |
8 Catford | 89 | 78 | 15 | 16 | 1 | — | 2 | 2 | 203 |
Blackheath & Lewisham Division | 201 | 180 | 19 | 54 | 5 | — | 11 | 3 | 473 |
9 Forest Hill | 28 | 45 | 4 | 18 | _ | _ | 2 | — | 97 |
10 Sydenham | 69 | 69 | 10 | 20 | 6 | l | 3 | — | 178 |
Sydenham & Forest Hill Division | 97 | 114 | 14 | 88 | 6 | l | 5 | — | 275 |
Whole Borough | 337 | 329 | 35 | 103 | 11 | l | 16 | 3 | 835 |