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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
Enfield 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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TABLE II.
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1913.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in Each Ward. | Total cases removed to Hospital. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | ||||||||||||||
| Under 1. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 45. | 45 and nuder 65. | 65 and up-wards. | Town. | Chase. | Bush Hill Park. | Ord-nance. | Green St.and Pond's End. | Had-ley and Cock-asters | |||
| Small Pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera. Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 72 | - | 19 | 47 | 4 | l | l | - | 4 | 22 | 16 | 5 | 21 | 4 | 63 |
| Erysipelas | 32 | - | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 158 | - | 24 | 111 | 18 | 5 | — | — | 19 | 53 | 32 | 36 | 17 | 1 | 140 |
| Typhus Fever | — | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Enteric Fever | 2 | - | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Relapsing Fever (R) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continued Fever (C) | |||||||||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 5 | - | — | — | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | — | — |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Poliomyelitis | 9 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 5 | — | — | — |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 118 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 23 | 46 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 26 | 20 | 25 | 45 | — | — |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 56 | 3 | 13 | 22 | 8 | 8 | 2 | - | 9 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 15 | - | - |
| Totals | 453 | 5 | 67 | 204 | 61 | 73 | 33 | 10 | 36 | 120 | 95 | 89 | 107 | 6 | 205 |