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 Dagenham]
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TABLE IV.
Incidence of Infection of Diphtheria.
Year. | Dagcnham | England and Wales. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. of Cases. | Rate per 1,000. | Rate per 1,000 under 15. | Rate per 1,000. | Rate per 1,000 under 15. | |
1921 | 0 | _ | _ | 1.75 | 0 .61 |
1922 | 27 | 10.82 | 24.00 | 1.36 | 4 .83 |
1923 | 6 | 1 .21 | 2 .70 | 1 .04 | 3.85 |
1921 | 11 | 1.10 | 2.40 | 1.08 | 4.07 |
1925 | 10 | 0.50 | 1.34 | 1 .22 | 4.69 |
1920 | 42 | 1.63 | 3 .70 | 1.30 | 5.07 |
1927 | 132 | 3.41 | 7.58 | 1.32 | 5.10 |
1928 | 211 | 3.63 | 8.83 | 1 .55 | 6.19 |
1929 | 210 | 2.93 | 6.52 | 1.58 | 6.45 |
1930 | 334 | 4.38 | 9 .74 | 1.84 | 7 .68 |
[The high local incidencc of early 1930 followed a low incidence
in late 1929. The notifications in last two months, 1929, were 54,
and for first three of 1930, 114. The corresponding figures for
previous year were 58 and 27.]
TABLE V. Incidence of Scarlet Fever.
Year. | No. of Cases. | Dagenham. | England and Wales. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rate per 1,000. | Rale per 1,000 under 15. | Rate per 1,000. | Rate per 1,000 under 15. | ||
1921 | 0 | - | - | 3.15 | 11.38 |
___1922 | 3 | 1.20 | 2 .69 | 3.59 | 12.74 |
1923 | 3 | 0.60 | 1 .35 | 2.82 | 10 .42 |
1925 | 10 | 1 .00 | 2 .23 | 3 .21 | 8 .32 |
l926 | 16 | 0.96 | 2. 15 | 2.35 | 8.98 |
1927 | 96 | 3.81 | 8.47 | 2.09 | 8.11 |
1928 | 199 | 5.14 | 11.42 | 2.16 | 8 .64 |
1929 | 301 | 5.18 | 11.53 | 2.59 | 10.26 |
1930 | 423 | 5. 91 | 13.13 | 8.01 | 12.36 |
449 | 587 | 12.81 | 2.76 | 11.52 | |
The following table shows the relative incidence of infection
for both diseases as affecting Dagenham compared with the country
as a whole, comparing in the one ease actual total populations,
and in the other the population at risk, which is taken as the
Population under 15 :—