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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 1915

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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Table: TABLE II. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1915.

TABLE II. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1915.

Notifiable Disease.Number of Cases Notified.Total Cases Notified in Each Ward.Total Cases Removed to Hospital.
At Ages—Years.
At all Ages.Under1 and under 5-5 and under 15-15 and under 25-25 and under 45-45 and under 65.65 and up-wards.Chase.Town.Ordnance.Green St. and Ponders End.Bush Hill Park.Hadley and Cock-fosters.
Small Pox0..........................................
Cholera. Plague0..........................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)93...2752851...191361223...83
Erysipelas37...3...4141426410107......
Scarlet Fever148222102175......401475136...128
Typhus Fever0..........................................
Enteric Fever18......8721.........17......117
Relapsing Fever (R) Continued Fever (C)0..........................................
Puerperal Fever2............2............1...1......
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis1.........1..................1......1
Poliomyelitis514...............1...4............
Ophthalmia Neonatorum55........................32.........
Pulmonary Tuberculosis102...11227481221332633252...
Other forms of Tuberculosis5131124634...6116217......
Totals46211681987079324852518892693229