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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 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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TABLE II.—All Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1915.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward or Institdtion. | Residents Removd to our Hospitl | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages'—Years. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |||||||||
| 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. | Fore Street | Resdnts. in Edmtn.. Workhse. | Total of , Resdnts. | Others in Edmtn. Workhse. | Belgian Refugee. | ||||
| Diphtheria (including membranous croup) | 96 | 1 | 35 | 53 | 4 | 3 | .. | .. | 23 | 29 | 37 | .. | 89 | 3 | 4 | 86 | |
| Erysipelas | 97 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 29 | 26 | 17 | 25 | 32 | 21 | 1 | 79 | 14 | 4 | .. | |
| Scarlet Fever | 304 | 1 | 60 | 197 | 33 | 12 | 1 | .. | 91 | 117 | 72 | 1 | 281 | 3 | 20 | 264 | |
| Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Enteric Fever | 12 | .. | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | 2 | .. | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | |
| Puerperal Fever | 7 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 7 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | 6 | 1 | .. | .. | |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 6 | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 3 | 3 | .. | 1 | |
| Poliomyelitis | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 11 | 11 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | .. | .. | |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 222 | see "Women Inspectors' Work" | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 | .. | ||||||
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 60 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 0 | .. | |||||||
| Totals | 817 | 17 | 104 | 262 | 50 | 57 | 28 | 17 | 149 | 185 | 135 | 6 | 475 | 28 | 38 | 355 | |
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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,
solation Hospitals and Sanatoria, &c.:—
1. Enfield and Edmonton Joint Isolation Hospital at World's End, Winchmore Hill, is in the Urban District of Enfield.
2. Clare Hall Small Pox Hospital and Sanatorium for consumptive persons. This is situate in the South Mimmsrural district of Middlesex an
belongs to the 17 Middlesex districts.
' 3. There is a building on Clavering's Farm, Edmonton, capable of taking of male and 6 female small-pox cases.
Cases of infectious disease occurring amongst soldiers and sailors are not included in this table, but a separate Statement about these, as far as
known, is given in the foreword.