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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
Stoke Newington 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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Deaths from Zvmotio Diseases (including Influenza and Erysipelas) in the Year 1911.
| Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Small Pox. | Enteric Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and D3'sentery. | Influenza. | Erysipelas. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Quarter | 1 | - | - | - | - | 17 | 12 | - | 1 | 1 | 32 |
| Second „ | - | 1 | - | - | - | 7 | 4 | 1 | - | 2 | 15 |
| Third „ | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 24 | - | 1 | 31 |
| Fourth „ | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 3 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 27 | 19 | 27 | 2 | 7 | 89 | |
| 1910 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 36 |
ZYMOTIC DIARRHOEA.
In London, during the week ended July 22, the number of deaths
of children under two years from “ Diarrhoea and Enteritis” was 56.
In the following ten weeks the deaths averaged 419 per week.
Thus in the summer of last year a disease was epidemic which,
in London alone, killed over 4,000 children under 2 years of age
within a period of 10 weeks; and there must have been tens of
thousands of sufferers from this disease. It is certain that we do too
little to cope against the ravages of this complaint. It is surprising
the extent to which public concern differentiates between the mortality
from one cause and another. Doubtless the fact that public alarm
would have been at least 100 times greater if only a small proportion
of the deaths from Zymotic Diarrhoea had been caused by Enteric
Fever, may partly be explained by the circumstance that the latter
disease attacks and kills those within the working periods of life