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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 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Erith]
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Table showing Number of Cases of Infectious Disease
notified during 1935.
| Disease | Under 1 year | 1—2 years | 3 years | 3—4 years | 4-5 years | 5—10 years | 10 15 years | 15 20 years | 20 35 years | 35—45 years | 45 65 years | 65 years and over | Total at all ages | Cases admitted to Hospital | Total Number of Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 2 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 35 | 30 | |||||
| Diphtheria | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 29 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 57 | 57 | 1 | |||
| Enteric Fever | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | |||||||||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 2 | 1 | I | I | 5 | ||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 26 | 13 | ||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Small Pox | |||||||||||||||
| Cerebro Spinal Meningitis | |||||||||||||||
| Malaria | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Grand Total | 4 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 46 | 12 | 11 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 136 | 91 | 14 |