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 Enfield]
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ENFIELD ZYMOTIC DEATH-RATE.
The zymotic death-rate, after deducting 21 deaths of persons from outside the district who died in the Isolation Hospital (which is situate in Enfield), and adding one Enfield resident who died outside the district, is 1.06 per thousand.
Disease. | 1914 | 1915 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Deaths. | Death-rate. | Deaths. | Death-rate. | |
Scarlet Fever | 3 | .04 | 3 | .04 |
Diphtheria | 15 | •24 | 10 | •16 |
Enteric Fever | 2 | •03 | 1 | •01 |
Erysipelas | 0 | •00 | 0 | •00 |
Measles | 8 | •13 | 32 | •52 |
Whooping Cough | 8 | •13 | !3 | •21 |
Epidemic Enteritis | 17 | •28 | 6 | •09 |
53 | •87 | 65 | 1.06 |
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The cases of Infectious Disease notified each quarter in the
various wards are as set out in the accompanying table :—