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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
Erith 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Erith]
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Table II.—Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1920.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of caess notified. | Total cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Ages—Years. | At all Ages. | ||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 and under 5 years. | 5 and under 15 yrs. | 15 and under 25 yrs. | 25 and under 45 yrs. | 45 and under 65 yrs. | 65 and upwards. | |||
| Diphtheria | 3 | 24 | 55 | 9 | 4 | 95 | 93 | ||
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 23 | |||
| Scarlet Fever | 3 | 26 | 86 | 13 | 4 | 132 | 118 | ||
| Enteric Fever | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Puerperal Fever | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | |||||||
| Pneumonia and InfluenzalPneu-monia | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 26 | |
| Malaria | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| *Chicken-pox | 5 | 13 | 30 | 48 | |||||
| Small-pox | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | |||
| Tuberculosis: — Pulmonary | 7 | 20 | 18 | 2 | 47 | ||||
| Other forms | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 18 | |||
| Totals | 15 | 74 | 189 | 48 | 51 | 24 | 5 | 406 | 219 |
Isolation Hospital or Hospitals, Sanatoria, &c.
Erith Sanatorium, various London General Hospitals and Special
Hospitals, Sanatoria at Bromley, &c.
Joyce Green M.A.B. Hospital, Dartford.
* Chicken-pox was notifiable for 3 months only.