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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
Edmonton 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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TABLE II.—All Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1914.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward or Institution. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Total Cases Remov'd to Hspitl. | |||||||
| Under 1 | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwds. | Bury Street Ward | Ch'ch Street Ward | Fore Street Ward | Edmtn. Union Resdnts. | Edmtn. Union Total. | Belgian refugees | Wstmstr. (lte. Stnd. Union). | |||
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 151 | 3 | 33 | 95 | 16 | 4 | .. | .. | 50 | 48 | 50 | 1 | 3 | 1 | .. | 141 |
| Erysipelas | 84 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 24 | 23 | 10 | 29 | 23 | 25 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | .. |
| Scarlet Fever | 365 | 1 | 86 | 211 | 51 | 14 | 2 | .. | 130 | 111 | 110 | 1 | 8 | 8 | .. | 328 |
| Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Enteric Fever | 17 | .. | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | .. | 6 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 16 | |
| Puerperal Fever | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Poliomyelitis | 3 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 16 | 16 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 | 5 | 4 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 428 | .. | 8 | 48 | 86 | 216 | 65 | 5 | 145 | 145 | 130 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | .. |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 63 | .. | 9 | 37 | 12 | 5 | .. | .. | 15 | 18 | 30 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Totals | 1132 | 24 | 141 | 405 | 188 | 267 | 92 | 15 | 384 | 358 | 357 | 6 | 24 | 14 | 2 | 585 |
The figures take account of any corrections made as a result of error in notification or revision of diagnosis as a result of the further course of the disease.
Isolation Hospitals, Sanatoria, &c.:—
Enfield and Edmonton Joint Isolation Hospital at World's End, Winchmore Hill, is in the Urban Dist ict of Enfield.
Clare Hall Small Pox Hospital and Sanitorium for consumptive persons. This is situate in the South Mimms rural district < f Middlesex and
belongs to 16 Middlesex districts.
There is a building on Clavering's Farm, Edmonton, capable of taking ten male and six female small-pox cases.